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...quintessential Nash appears in "One Man's Opiate," published late last year in The New Yorker. In it, he brings off an excruciating knock-knock joke in French-en route to his conclusion about the uses of laughter in the gloomy present: "In this age penumbral,/Let the timbrel resound in the tumbrel...
...right to knock one person off the list [of proposed committee members] is absurd," the faculty member said. "After one challenge, Hartman is entirely subject to the whims of the faculty which approved the termination of his contract...
Hard-liners in the Administration are convinced that the Soviets developed the S59 for one purpose: to enable the U.S.S.R. to knock out U.S. missiles in their silos, thus giving Moscow a clear first-strike capability without fear of a devastating retaliatory strike. They maintain that the Soviets see SALT not as a way to cut down a bloated defense budget, but as a means to achieve demonstrable superiority over the U.S. The kind of superiority the Russians may be trying to engineer, argues Columbia University Sovietologist Zbigniew Brzezinski, would be aimed not at winning wars so much...
...Surely, fatties have long maintained, there must be easier ways to slim down. Now there are -scads of them. The current easy-exercise-equipment market is doing a $100 million-a-year business in belts and wheels, inflatable suits, stretch straps, electronic and battery-operated devices, all designed to knock off pounds and inches with a minimum of effort on the part of the individual. For those who cannot raise even the minimum, there is the "wrapping" method, which asks nothing of the customer but time and money...
...discothèque. Baer, a devout Presbyterian, read his Bible a great deal when not poring over his notes on the testimony. A few, like Sisto, were genuinely enthralled by the enforced camaraderie. As he put it later: "I miss the friendship. I always felt like I could go knock on someone's door and talk any time of the day or night, just like when I was in the Navy...