Word: mocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simulated setting, they dealt with sales, cost, and financing to plan their sales and management strategies which even included a mock merger situation. "It's hard to compare the Business School with other business schools since we're much more reality-oriented," a B-School administrator said, adding. "Harvard's programs are in a class by themselves...
...were still missing. "If the man don't win, I'm going to hate white folks forever," growled a partisan. Finally the result began to sink in. Chicago, that bastion of segregated neighborhoods and brawling Democratic machinery, had elected a black as mayor. The chants began to mock the racially charged campaign slogan of the white Republican opponent. "We want Harold-before it's too late...
...prank last December during the winter Phools' week, an aspiring Poonster interrupted a lecture by Professor Robert Coles to mock him for several minutes. Lampoon officials later apologized to Coles...
Another trap in Stoppard's play is the confining of rich, mock-Elizabethan dialogue to a spare, absurdist setting--as critics have pointed out, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern draws heavily from Samuel Beckett's style. But director Kaplan perhaps tips the scales too heavily toward the absurd tradition. The stark stage, the sparse furniture are all there, and rightly so. But the Shakespearean tradition is just as important: Stoppard includes sizable chunks from Hamlet, and his own words show a penchant for language tricks...
Believing that the Ad Board's procedures are "mysterious" to many undergraduates, council members had initially wanted to stage an open, mock session in which officials would review a series of simulated cases...