Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alumnae of Quincy House, we were appalled by Master Shinagel's remarks about Quincy's dining hall checkers. Shinagel implied to The Crimson that his comments were a joke and that those who find them offensive are humorless dullards. We hope that other members of the Harvard community will agree that his remarks displayed no humor, but revealed a narrow mind and shocking insensitivity. Elizabeth A. Szanto '86-7 Susan M. Dynarski...
Cleary: "Ugh. That makes it twice as tough. Oh, boy, it does terrible things to the hair line. Which reminds me of a joke. What do you call a bunch of rabbits walking backward? A receding hare line...
...Brahms?" asks an old joke making light of the composer's changing musical idiom. But if the composer had always written music like his three sonatas for violin and piano, the witticism would never have gained currency. Far removed from the composer's youthful sturm und drang, these autumnal pieces represent a tempered and philosophical old master...
...show's anchor is clearly Adam Albion. His Mortimer rivals Cary Grant's in the number of double-takes per minute. During the performance I saw, he was in such control of both his character and the show that he was able to ad lib a joke about Princeton that even the many Princetonians in the audience must have laughed...
...PEER(LESS) Gynt a social satire? Is it an updated Norwegian folk tale? Is it a meditation on man's quest for self? Is it just an avant-garde joke? I don't know; it's hard to tell...