Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regal self-assurance. A globe-trotter who covers as many as 150,000 miles a year proselytizing for Notre Dame, he has said Mass at the South Pole and at the Faculty House of the University of Moscow. (The difference between God and Hesburgh, goes an old campus joke, is that God is everywhere and Hesburgh everywhere but Notre Dame.) With this spiritual nourishment fed into a healthy ego, he retains a natural sense of command. "The very essence of leadership is you have to have a vision," he says. "It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly...
...joke," Gueron says. "They [Radcliffe] sent freshwomen a letter about how they're giving out Radcliffe mugs and people were laughing." Many of her friends actively do not like the idea of a separate Radcliffe community, she says. "Most female students would be resentful and would say 'Don't treat me as any different from one of the guys,'" Gueron says...
...YORK--Tom Seaver, whose pitching was the catalyst that transformed the New York Mets from a baseball joke to a world champion, is essentially retired after 311 wins and a raft of major league records, his agent said yesterday...
...problem seems to be that Costello wishes to be regarded as the voice of a generation in the way that Sinatra is, but he can't resist making a silly joke out of the whole process. As the beginning of his concert proved, Costello does not need the usual rock and roll trickery to be effective. He comes across most powerfully as a serious singer-songwriter with an arresting voice and a seemingly bottomless well of creative ideas. As his fans, we should demand that our voice come without all the Vegas bullshit...
...toddler son into a pool with the promise of catching him, and then allowing the boy to sink or swim. The name of this story is Trust Me, a title that then echoes brightly through the rest of the book like the sardonic punch line of a locker-room joke...