Word: jokingness
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Larkin made a life's work of offering the unfashionable alternative -- joking about it but meaning it too. His verse, unlike Hughes', was resolutely un-modernist; he clung to the notion that poems should be clearly written in everyday language and should avoid posturing and pretension at all costs -- though...
In a concert grounds in Ulysses, Pennsylvania, down a gravel road off Route 49, on property of a white supremacist named "Chip" Kreis, a weekend-long rock concert is about to begin. A rock concert whose spectators do not appreciate the press. Someone says to a TIME reporter, "I want...
Hoping to take advantage of his forward momentum last week, the President held two news conferences. At the first, he pointed to his success in getting a budget agreement through both houses of Congress, denied that he had changed course in Bosnia and, somewhat implausibly, took credit for the creation...
Returning to his post in South Africa, MacLeod swung into action to set up the interviews. He was hoping for a milestone to make the timing of the story most meaningful, and after last week's multiparty agreement on a date for the country's first free elections, he finally...
Ogletree mentioned that he was accepting the award with trepidation, since he will be joining the faculty of Stanford Law School next fall. But as both the crowd, and Law School Dean Robert C. Clark, reacted with horror, Ogletree reassured the audience that he was joking.