Word: mocking
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...these books I remember little except odd bits of effluvia. Kinsey informed me that one in seven farm lads had engaged in, shall we say, animal husbandry ("Until," as Tom Lehrer would add, "they caught him at it"). From Ginzburg I learned that Benjamin Franklin had written a mock-scientific essay on the technique of farting, in which he wryly proposed giving the stinky gas a sweet fragrance through the ingestion of, I think, cloves...
...they are given a binder “with all of the information you could possibly want or ask,” and then discuss the process with current officers. New hires then read cases and review them with a more senior officer as well as participate in a mock subcommittee...
...workplace, a marriage, the church building committee. As siblings, we may sulk and fume but by nighttime we still return to the same twin beds in the same shared room. Peace is made when one sib offers a toy or shares a thought or throws a pillow in a mock provocation that releases the lingering tension in a burst of roughhousing. Somewhere in there is the early training for the e-mail joke that breaks an office silence or the husband who signals that a fight is over by asking his wife what she thinks they should do about that...
...What were they so interested in? Media training - a testament to the narcissism of the profession, perhaps. The workshop culminated in mock TV interviews of newly minted pundits. The interrogations were suitably aggressive - the let's-pretend network must have been Fox News - though only a few newbie talking heads were rattled. One gentleman who came forward to playact a Q&A on the war in Iraq was asked if the recent capture and killing of terrorist al-Zarqawi showed that the Bush war was, in fact, working. Reviewing the tape afterwards, one of the workshop leaders complimented...
Social life for Harvard undergraduates defies easy categorization. For some, social life means late nights packed in the ground floors of certain Mt. Auburn St. mansions (or mock-Flemish castles), and for others, it means room parties and events organized by House Committees (HoCos). For many, social life means long hours spent with one’s extracurricular activity of choice, and for the campus, it means the occasional school-wide event. The latter three incarnations all saw, by and large, improvements this year as the College dean’s office, the president’s office...