Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sing Muse" was born in a Hum 2 classroom last year. In the spring, on a Leverett House commission, section man Erich Segal '58 teamed with composer Joseph Raposo '58 and turned his fascination for the mock-heroic into the theme of a musical comedy...
...guffaws from the other side, as one of the neutralist dele gates pointed out that the bridge had been blown up and the princes could not stand in midair. The Boun Oum man came back with the suggestion that a raft be built and anchored in midriver. With a mock-serious air, the neutralist chief delegate drew a lurid picture of the dangers that the princes would face on a raft in the midst of the monsoon-swollen torrent, where they might be swept away along with all hopes for peace. Rising to a fever pitch, he enumerated all those...
...gondoliers have gone on strike before (twelve times in the past 16 years), as their trade has dwindled steadily since the 18th century, when they reigned as kings over the Grand Canal. But this time Gondolier Macropodio inspired the strikers, instead of merely beaching their boats, to mock, not fight, the opposition...
...illustrated by Irene Haas; Harcourt, Brace; $2.25) is the kind of book that separates the privileged U child from the underprivileged non-U brat. It is bilingual, featuring first-reader French for cosmopolitan moppets. Two tykes, a boy and a girl dressed in their parents' clothes, take a mock-adult trip to Paris. The author's gentle wit consists in creating a mildly inappropriate setting for the appropriate French phrase. The little girl falls into a fountain under a spouting marble fish. Caption, "Il pleut, Monsieur (eel pluh muh-seyuh)," means "It is raining, sir." Irene Haas...
...Hustlers. Kennedy wanted to drop production of both the B-52s and the B-58s in 1962. but the House added $448,840,000 to continue purchase of the bombers and to step up study of the highly controversial 2,000-m.p.h. B-70, which is now in mock-up form. In addition, the bill speeds up development of the 1,000-mile, nuclear-tipped Sky-bolt missile, which will increase the punch and range of the B-52. The bill will also keep nearly 200 of the Air Force's 1,500 bombers...