Word: retold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...First the Columbia Spectator retold what had happened in Up Against the Ivy Wall. Then James Simon Kunen expostulated in The Strawberry Statement. And now, two years after the event, Roger Kahn offers another account of the 1968 spring disruptions at Columbia...
...professor illustrated his view: He had heard someone telling the old joke about the male robin who, upon finding a brown egg in his nest, inquired of his wife regarding this phenomenon. She replied that she had done it for a lark. The professor remembered having heard the joke retold later by a Briton who told it intact, except for the tag line, which became: "I did it for a sparrow." This, the professor insisted, made it difficult to believe in English humor...