Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kid myself that this (trial) is the end of the Mafia," says Palermo Prosecutor Giusto Sciacchitano. "It wasn't born yesterday, and it may not end with this. You can't destroy the Mafia with just one trial." Nonetheless, Italian and U.S. authorities are optimistic that the Palermo trial will at least choke back some of the Syndicate's activities. "The New York and Sicilian trials are two sides of the same coin," says Sciacchitano. "We have had a continual swapping of help and information. We are prosecuting the same organization...
Radcliffe President Horner, for instance, cannot resist listing a Dr. Seuss book, The Sneetches, and Other Stories among the books she's loved before. Professor Gould, after telling us how he played stickball as a street-kid in New York City, includes Lucky to Be a Yankee by Joe DiMaggio on his list of great books, following Darwin's The Origin of Species...
During that week, Harvard offers orientations to various minorites it thinks will have difficulty adapting to the environment. But the University forgets about the one that could really use that service--the shy kid from the sheltered glades of suburbia who lacks the family or prep school connections for a showing of the ropes. Without it, Freshman Week is a blizzard of stammered conversations and embarrassed silences, a cocktail party scripted by Samuel Beckett...
...full day was given over to workshops, serious affairs that dissected humor, a daunting job since humor tends to get stubborn in the face of pathology. Mark Wade, for example, who lectured on comedy writing for kid shows, gave his listeners the ABCs of a joke. "With C you pull the rug out from under them," he explained. He brought out a monkey dummy, who said, "My sister picks on me." That...
...notion may draw snickers from people subjected to the lurid lectures on the horrors of narcotics that generally passed for drug education in the '60s and '70s. "It only takes one kid in an auditorium who says, 'Hey, I know someone who did that drug and it didn't happen to him,' and your message is gone," says Richard Booze, assistant director of a Chicago-area training center for teachers. Many experts also doubt the effectiveness of Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" effort. That drive, focused on children 7 to 14, has prompted the organization of 10,000 clubs...