Word: quipping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lovers' lives gave them one afternoon where questions of "reality" had no place. The experiences that they had collected and vainly tried to understand fell together by themselves when they were together. The boy had been wallowing in the wastelands of campus radicalism, agreeing with a Black Panther's quip that "white radicalism is a cross between jive and bullshit," Smothered by his inactivity, alienated from the suboulture of the alienated, he joyrides into criminality and personal liberation. During his hours in the desert, he found for the first time that he could fill himself by giving...
...Your article re Penn Central [Feb. 2] brings to mind a standard quip one of the conductors on our train brings to light ever so often. Because of a particularly hectic day at the ticket window, a passenger had to get on the train without a ticket. He asked the conductor if he sold tickets on the train. The conductor said: "Hell, we don't sell tickets, we sell chances...