Word: jokingness
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Touting President Bush’s record and joking about the safety of conservatives on campus, panelists of various racial and ethnic backgrounds gathered with about 30 students yesterday to discuss the challenge of being both conservative and a minority.
Schmitnick offers a joking commentary on the proceedings. When Joshua C. Phillips ’07 performs the Disney favorite “Under the Sea,” Schmitt jokingly orders him to “correct the grammatical errors in the song.”
Assistant Professor of Sociology Mark J. Zimny said he was amused by the ruckus, joking that he “did not actually have a well prepared lecture in the can, thus he welcomed the unexpected intrusion with gusto.”
Bush's ardor for the topic grew during a trip to Japan last month. He told aides that if Japan, which had little or no experience with democracy before World War II, could embrace the system, so could the people of the Middle East. The speech, written by Michael Gerson...
The joking and chatting ceased. All attention was centered squarely on an image that, only moments before, was a background for shadow puppets created by the hands of jaunty field hockey players.