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...reporter reminded Butz that Pope Paul VI had opposed population control in an audience with delegates to last month's World Food Conference in Rome, a point of view that angered many of those concerned, like Butz, about overpopulation. But Butz heedlessly reiterated his position in a mock Italian accent: "He no playa the game, he no maka the rules...
...Davies's strong attachment to the music hall/vaudeville traditions of his youth. The song was introduced in a quasi-puritanical manner, in which Davies warned the world against the imminent dangers of demon alcohol, while keyboard man John Gosling tinkled the ivories in such a fashion as to mock good-naturedly the somber scenario Davies tried to conjure up. The song's crapulous ambiance was supported by the sluggish, drawn out tempo of the Dixieland horn section and Davies's possibly unintentional slurring of the lyrics (by that time he had quite a bit to drink). Since the previously established...
Having a Baby. Allen then holds mock weddings complete with flowers, plastic wedding rings, organ music and receptions. Most of the weddings are in the classroom, but last spring one couple decided to get married under the cherry trees on the school's front lawn. Some 300 students attended the ceremony...
...weddings are only the beginning. The couples must search for an apartment and sign a mock lease, read want ads and go through the motions of getting a job (they must persuade an employer to write a note guaranteeing one of them a job at a specified salary). They also prepare a budget and have a baby (simulated by the showing of a movie of a live birth). Later in the course, after they have been "married" for five years, the couples study real estate ads, get a multiple-listing book, choose a house and shop for furniture. "They just...
...reforms stirred little controversy until Tombalbaye ordered the revival of an ancient pagan tribal custom known as Yondo, a grueling initiation rite practiced by the Sara tribal groups of southern Chad. The ordeal -Tombalbaye himself underwent it as an adolescent-is known to involve floggings, facial scarring, mock burials, drugging, and ingeniously gruesome tests of stamina, like crawling naked through a nest of termites. Tribesmen who have been raised in the bush do not always survive the ritual, which suggested that it is even more difficult for urbanized Chadians to endure. When Tombalbaye decreed that high government officials, regardless...