Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both a diplomatic duty and a sentimental journey for President Carter's mother. While her son voiced mock concern that "when Mother gets home we'll either have very good relations with India or they'll be destroyed once again," Miss Lillian, 78, and Grandson Chip, 26, flew to New Delhi to lead the official U.S. delegation at the funeral last week of Indian President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. Jimmy Carter had nothing to worry about. His mother's Southern grace charmed everyone, including Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who invited her home for what Miss Lillian called...
...IMPACT of the Lampoon's mock stereotypes have proved genuinely demoralizing to blacks. In the past few years, black students at Harvard have seen themselves under increasing attack, particularly in the fact of academic reaction against affirmative action. The answer to HRBSA's protest against the Lampoon, therefore, will not come by labelling the magazine as racist. Rather--to borrow from the wording of the protesters' petition--in the future the magazine's editors must be sensitive to and refrain from "Iacial insensitivity" toward the black community...
...Chase, taking exception to the suggestion that mock stereotypes can help devastate malicious stereotypes, said, "Blacks hear those criticisms so many times when not in humor that it becomes hard to differentiate" between malice and jest...
...Fell sighed in mock exasperation. She had just struggled through the ice and snow to bring in a load of groceries that morning, and now she had to brave the arctic-like weather again to cart off three more autographed copies of her husband's new book, America B.C.: Ancient Settlers in the New World...
Bergman drew on his youthful experiences for the film's biggest scene, a parade down a re-created Berlin street of 1923 -jokingly called the Bergmanstrasse. The day began dreadfully because the sun was shining for the first time in nearly a week, casting dark shadows over the mock buildings. "We are merely facing a catastrophe," the director said through clenched teeth. Some 450 extras clogged the streets, many crammed uncomfortably aboard antique buses...