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Keillor described people in public life as "well-mannered and respectful." Well-mannered and respectful politicians? Hardly. Sarcasm and ridicule are the manners most often employed. In fact, Keillor's Essay is little more than disdain and hardly an example of civility and good breeding. There's nothing factual in his piece, only ambiguous allegations of how "all" Minnesotans feel about former Governor Ventura. BRIAN TRACEY Fort Wayne...
...Many readers felt that writer Joel Stein's antic skepticism was ill suited to the subject of meditation. "He would not have used such a flip, disrespectful tone in an article on Christian or Jewish ritual," wrote a religion professor from Georgia. Asked a minister from Maine: "Why the sarcasm? What was Stein afraid of?" And a New Yorker offered a brief, blunt primer on meditation: "The goal is to calm the mind enough that you don't need to make really lame jokes...
Lipsky approaches the cadets like an anthropologist stalking the elusive Yanomamo tribe, and with good reason: he's in a weird, weird place. "Cadets entering West Point step into an irony-free zone," Lipsky writes, "a place where sarcasm has been fought to a standstill." When people say "Huah!" at West Point, they're not doing an Al Pacino impression. "Huah!" is the universal adjective for all things gung-ho and military: a huah cadet would never be caught missing a shave or parking sloppily. A huah cadet would never flunk the regular fitness tests, which include 42 push...
When one undergraduate walked by and cracked a joke about one of the protester’s Sept. 11 sign, Phelps-Roper said the student’s sarcasm indicated that her message had gotten through...
...orators added a kick of humorous sarcasm to the program, as Courtney Bass ’03 griped in her speech, “In less that 24 hours, I will be kicked out of here faster than a freshman party is shut down by the Harvard University Police...