Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...admonition against engaging in sexual or even platonic love affairs with their advisees that Moses gave the prefects at their principle training session--at 7:30 a.m. the first Saturday of Freshman Week--has been humorously recounted by many of those who attended. Some would say the joke is on Moses, who has day-to-day responsibility for running the prefect program and therefore must deal with any conflicts as they arise...
Calgary blueliner Neil Sheehy says, "I joke around with the management. I say, 'Look at that, you've got one Harvard guy here, you've got to get them...
...went to public high school," says Hannah Gittleman '87, "and Harvard students were always kind of a joke guess it was basically because the ones we noticed were the ones that stuck out the most--the ones who got drunk and ran through Harvard Square singing loudly and being obnoxious. We definitely had a bad image of Harvard students...
...tears. But the daughters are not as dissimilar as they seem. Camelia, 36, also plays out an Oedipal drama: when she is photographed with Egypt's President, "gossip followed that Father was involved with an attractive young woman whom he intended to marry. I thought it a huge joke." The joke was not always so funny. In this sad account, Sadat marries off his daughter when she is twelve, to a man 17 years her senior. When she later demands a divorce, her father grows glacially remote. Even when his emotionally distraught daughter attempts suicide, he sends an emissary...
...sister and the kid have a relationship. The sister is jealous of the attention her brother gets from their parents, ("You always take his side because he's crippled. Well it's not my fault he's crippled!"). And the kid feels terrible when a joke he plays on his sister makes her ruin her new pantyhose...