Word: joking
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Doubtless on the great anthropomorphic ocean every swell believes it self the wave of the future. But given present populations and food sources, Barkas' prophecy seems valid: the vegetable passion is no longer a joke. It is likely to gain adherents and political significance in the next decades. There may even come a day when it provokes books of vigor and practicality instead of green, leafy prattle. ∎Stefan Kanfer
...never were any rules against undesirables. Still, the Pudding cast is one of the last all-male--this year it's all-white, too--enterprises at Harvard, and it usually relies heavily on a clubby, ivy-covered-boys-in-the-ivy-covered-backroom appeal, whose one fundamental, never-failing joke is that women--portrayed by men whose condescension is a secondary joke--are inherently ridiculous...
...chains," is an awful long time coming) than in its unflagging continuity in a texture which-as a friend from Lampoon explained to me--soaks up puns unobtrusively, "the way bread soaks up puns unobtrusively, "the way bread soaks up wine." Almost every line in the script has a joke in it somewhere, often so naturally imbedded in the basic joke of the plot (quailing before Otto da Fe, the Earl of Fourflush who announces that he won't be satisfied "until everyone is dead," one of the heroines vainly offers so "give you my silver gold-piece") that...
...rent golden-anniversary issue once again exhibits the profile of Eustace Tilley. But it is no longer the true face of the magazine. Another visage somehow hovers behind the columns, a face no longer young but not old, a wise, ironic face that has learned to tell a joke as well as take one; a face that can turn grim, be cause contemporary distress can no longer be answered with a riposte; a face that has resolved its youthful conflict. "If you can't be funny, be interesting." The advice no longer applies. The face at long last manages...
Died. Raymond Moley, 88, founding member of Franklin Roosevelt's Brain Trust; in Phoenix. So powerful was Moley as F.D.R.'s closest adviser that an early New Deal joke had a Senator asking the President for a favor-an appointment with Moley. The Brain Trust that he organized shaped Roosevelt's historic policies, but finding himself opposed to massive expansion of federal authority, Moley left the Administration in September 1933 and later broke with the Democratic Party. As author and Newsweek columnist, Moley backed Republicans Willkie, Goldwater and Nixon for President...