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...going up on the post?" a classmate asked, placing a manly slap on my shoulder...
...part this is due to Watt's choice of language-the word cripple in this instance, which has the sound of a flat slap in the face. Yet a few days after Watt's remark, in a bizarre protest demonstration in his defense, a man on crutches supported the usage, citing other contexts where "cripple" is benign. True enough. Former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz forced himself out of the Ford Administration by telling a cruel and tasteless joke about "coloreds"; yet Dick Gregory could title his autobiography Nigger, and Flip Wilson won love and fortune by creating...
...also those members of the public sufficiently generous to find both humor and value in a sensitive issue. The laughter he elicited-and there was laughter-was the hollow laugh, what Samuel Beckett called the "mirthless" laugh (in the novel Watt, coincidentally), the laugh that itself gives a slap in the face...
...faculty of national and racial pride and basked in this belated recognition. Koreans are counting on events such as this month's Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Conference and the upcoming Seoul Olympics in 1988 to mark their full acceptance in the fellowship of advanced nations. KAL 007 was a slap in the face that underscored Korea's weakness in the international arena and its continued dependence on the US and to a lesser extent, Japan. Although it now seems questionable that the Soviets knew that it was a Korean Airline jet before shooting it down if is difficult for Koreans...
...slap in the face that underscored Korea's weakness in the international arena and its continued dependence on the U.S. and, to a lesser extent, Japan. It is difficult for Koreans to believe that the Russians would have attacked a passenger jet from a more powerful nation such as the United States...