Word: mock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solid for the next 40 years by applicants from as far away as Madagascar. The list includes gamblers, adulterers, ex-convicts -all seeking peace of mind. With it, they get an awful lot of exercise. The procession, chuckles Father Scuitti, "is no evening promenade." In last week's mock trip to Calvary, a short, fat man grunted and puffed as he bore the cross along a mile-and-a-half route. Coming out of the church, the Catenacciu got his huge load stuck in the doorway. Then, as he stumbled along dirt paths and darkened, cobbled streets, struggled painfully...
Despite the charisma of his lectures, Mr. Fleming stresses the solitude of a professor in talking about his own role. When asked for an interview, his first words were a mock tragic, "how grim." To him the "life of scholarship is a private sort of existence," and this makes it appealing. Privacy has meant that he sees men in other fields infrequently. Even among his fellow historians conversations follow university politics or national affairs, and intellectual privacy is respected. "I have seldom in my whole career had discussions of a scholarly or academic nature with men like Frank Friedel...
...Establishment. Britannia used to rule the waves; nowadays it can scarcely hold the tongues of its 20-year-olds. It's mock mock mock all night long as this freshman three-man, two-woman revue team tries to match the varsity players of Beyond the Fringe...
...White of the Supreme Court, last night decided in favor of the Holmes Club in the finals of the Law School Ames Competition. The Holmes Club, which was represented by Pierre S. DuPont IV and David J. Supino as attorneys, competed against the Story Equity Club in a mock-trial involving the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission...
Cousins Galore. But the best laugh getters, as usual, were the guests of honor. President Kennedy was in top form. With the issue of Government-managed news still a hot one, he began his talk with the greeting "Fellow managing editors." In mock-somber tones and with almost professional timing, the President went on to describe the discovery of a serious new Soviet threat. Khrushchev sent his son-in-law Aleksei Adzhubei over to subvert the Vatican, the President noted, and there was talk that the touring Russian had left some Marxist bibles behind in caves around the Holy City...