Word: joking
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...clause which caused confusion and subsequent protest. The clear familiarity with the specifies of the new government and the voting process thus diffuses any assertions that the vote signaled a resurgence of campus activism. Essentially, students voted against the status quo and nothing more, akin to booing a bad joke...
...what you know. The nuns and priests of a generation ago impressed their small charges more than they realized. The steel-edged rulers with which they whacked so many knuckles are being raised against them. The mystery of faith has become a frightening conundrum, and the Baltimore Catechism a joke book. And so it has come to pass: the children of Sister Mary Ignatius have taken their revenge-by Richard Corliss
Like many students, Borya is a Komsomol member not out of ideological commitment but rather because he feels that party affiliation will enhance his career opportunities. His cynicism toward the government is reflected in a joke he enjoys telling: "What is the most neutral country in the world today? Afghanistan--it's so neutral that it doesn't interfere in even its own internal affairs." From reading the Soviet press and talking with an acquaintance who had returned from military service there, Borya is fully aware of the implications of an agreement of "mutual assistance...
Frisby called the incident an "unfortunate joke" and said he did not know that the victim was Jewish, the Diamondback, the campus newspaper, reported this week...
Faith is a substitute for logic, but not an easy one. Speaking in the late 1930s, an old German rabbi in The Joke proclaims: "The Nazis maintain that cannons are more important than butter, but we Jews, the people of the Book, still believe in the power of the word." Yet the orthodox in Singer's tales are the ones most likely to discover that the letter can kill. They are denied the ignorance of "ordinary people who because of their simplicity are spared bad luck and go through life without any real problems." Hence, a softhearted young...