Word: jokingness
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Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister in the Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes beamed at the enthusiasm students showed for Graham, joking that 20 years ago, the sight of undergraduates sleeping on the front steps of Memorial Church would have sent him running for cover, fearing a student protest...
You might expect a guy named Rock to be a little tougher. But Rock, 34, is a comic, not a fighter.He can't throw an uppercut, but he knows how to get a laugh. And right now, he's the funniest man in America. Dick Gregory calls Rock "a genius...
My classmates, with their half-joking jabs, have tried to convince me that the Midwest is a backward, simple hickville and it almost worked. It's a conspiracy, I tell you. But I think it's Midwesterners who are behind it.
But Summers does not lack confidence. Last week as he sat in his office joking with his Treasury aides, Summers ruminated on succeeding Rubin. He mused that it might be like replacing Yankee great Joe DiMaggio. And who remembers who replaced Joe DiMaggio? "It was Mickey Mantle," an aide answered...
Joking that it was "definitely the first time I've ever read in a church," the Indian novelist Salman Rushdie read before several hundred people Monday night at the First Parish Church of Cambridge.