Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Control is what UConn had through out the match. With their red, white and blue uniforms and chattering like a pair of joke teeth the Huskies looked like the Harlem Globetrotters of college soccer stringing together scores of passes before trying to penetrate Harvard's defense...
Along with the social games, though, a lot of intellectual choices have to be made, courses picked, books bought. Will it be the class known as "Slums and Bums" (Urban Government) or "Nuts and Sluts" (Abnormal Psychology)? The students joke about these things because they know the choices are serious; their future lives depend on them, and so does much else besides. It has been said that every nation has only a few years in which to civilize an onrushing horde of barbarians, its own children...
...gentle hero of William Wharton's third novel explains: "Our family name is Knott. My parents wanted to call me Bill or Billy, but because there's no Saint Bill or Billy, I was named William. They insist no joke was intended. By third grade at school, I was Will Knott. I learned to live with it, my private martyrdom. So I was more or less prepared to grit it out again in the army, Willingly or Knott (Ha!). What I wasn't ready for was the conglomeration of certified wise guys and punsters called...
Pellegrini adds, "The guys are great but in the locker room they all talk about how they played in the Rose Bowl or the Cotton Bowl. We like to joke that the Yale Bowl is the only bowl we got near to." "Some of the players like to tease me by saying I'm a preppy even though I was the farthest thing from a preppy at Harvard. Many others can't believe I went to Harvard." The former Kirkland House resident, however, does not think that playing in the Ivy League with deemphasized programs and no spring practices hurt...
...standoff. As he has done so often in the past, Fowles makes sure that the tie goes to the author. During one of his short-lived triumphs, Miles pedantically explains his art to Erato: "Serious modern fiction has only one subject: the difficulty of writing serious modern fiction." The joke is on everyone except Fowles. Mantissa is clearly an example of serious modern fiction, with itself as its subject, and not a trace of difficulty is visible anywhere in its construction. A susceptible soul might be led to believe that the Muses are amusing. Perhaps Erato lives...