Word: sarcasm
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...body art, and a 16-year-old Oregonian recounted her hard life as a single mother. "Generation X actively pursues the deflation of the ideal," says Karen Ritchie in her book, Marketing to Generation X. "No icon and certainly no commercial is safe from their [Xers'] irony, their sarcasm or their remote control. These are the tools with which Generation X keeps the world in perspective...
Harvard's left needs to discover a sense of humor and not shrink from using caustic wit and sarcasm. It could also benefit from a more combative stance. Mockery can be an especially effective device for combating the hypocrisy or ridiculous obsessions of the right...
...statements were never intended to be taken literally, much less quoted. As a witness to your interviewer's obvious inexperience and horrible interrogation of Ms. Kirk, e.g., "How does it feel to know that your room is burning up right now?" I am appalled by his complete misunderstanding of sarcasm or wit. I admit that Ms. Kirk should have known better than to trust The Crimson with a chance to use swear words in a front-page story. (I do wonder how your alumni readers as well as parents who subscribe to your newspaper react to your casual...
...Saturday Night Live made fun of Chelsea's hair and braces. The numerous late night talk shows couldn't stop joking about her looks. The culmination of this relentless sarcasm was a cartoon in the Los Angeles Times that viciously mocked her appearance. Thankfully, this cartoon provoked protest. In total, 500 people wrote demanding that Chelsea be left alone. Even parodies of Amy Carter hadn't focused on her looks. And the media realized that a thirteen-year-old child, whoever her parents may be, should be left alone...
...Realizing that new ideas, especially radical ones, are always a hard sell at first, we even anticipated a certain degree of hostility. We certainly did not expect to see in The Crimson an attack like Chris H. Kwak's "Critique of Pure Nonsense" (January 30). Kwak's fact-free, sarcasm-laced rant would not normally warrant a response, but given that it and a similar diatribe printed December 17 seem to represent the only kind of coverage The Crimson is willing to give the Objectivist Club's efforts, we feel obliged to write...