Word: mocks
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Rather, writers like Burns and Ware are prime examples of the major weakness of graphic novels: they are emotionally difficult and even hateful to readers. They demand you to be engaged, they demand you to look and absorb every sweat-inducing detail, and worst of all, they mock happy endings...
...that was long ago replaced by the egalitarian progressive paradise that is today’s Cambridge, Mass. Today, we tell ourselves, Harvard students are accepting of those different than us, and would never exhibit any of the mannerisms of those old, dead, white, European males we so often mock...
...snobbery makes perfect sense if one remembers that, for all of our protestations to the contrary, Harvard students are just people. Normal people. Granted, we may be very smart and some of us might be hard working, but, fundamentally, we are not at all different from those we often mock and disparage. That this needs to even be stated is evidence of how bad things have become, but let us remember that people are, more often than not, selfish, narrow-minded, and prejudiced. Thus we see Harvard students writing that athletes as a whole are a mark of shame...
...reverse the trend. Expedia, for instance, is offering discounts on what it calls destination vacations--planned adventures like cave diving or whale watching. Universal Orlando theme parks is so concerned about the vacation deficit that it has created a tongue-in-cheek ad campaign called Have a Life, featuring mock executives thanking workers for sacrificing their vacation for the bottom line. Many hotels are touting luxury beds, Internet service and fourth-night-free deals. But with a vulnerable work force in a tight economy, many workers see vacation as an unaffordable luxury--and even when they do take one, work...
...Cambridge Police Department (CPD) requested HUPD assistance in dealing with persons throwing bottles from the decrepit, mock-Flemish facilities of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that occasionally used to publish a so-called humor magazine...