Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are few things in life worse than not being welcome at an Irish bar, probably because everyone is welcome at an Irish bar except Italians and Jews and Poles and Puerto Ricans and Lithuanians and Portuguese and lepers and convicted axe-murderers and, worst of all, WASPs. But, bearing none of these ethnic handicaps, and bearing a fairly obviously Irish mug besides, I had never felt uneasy about strolling into the local pub and shooting the breeze with a group of old-timers who look like they've just stepped out of the mists in "The Informer." That...
...borrowed form his roommate, who was a working-class kid from Atlanta, and told the professor he was from the Spanish-speaking community. Paco bit his lip and then started swearing in Spanish about how he didn't know they had so many Chicanos in Beverly Hills except for the gardeners. The rich kid said no, the maid spoke Spanish too, and walked out. Paco laughed and swore a little more and realized he was beginning to learn a lot at Harvard...
...will continue to reject through humor rather than accept through humor for as long as they need the Law as straight man. This is why the grey agreement reached last week between the administration, HRBSA, and the Lampoon will not be adhered to by the members of the Lampoon, except according to the letter. As an organization within an organization, the Lampoon must adhere to the agreement, but as a spiritual entity whose purpose is anarchy, the Lampoon must reject any accord with the world at large...
There is a standing joke among journalists that the world will do anything for Latin America except read about it. The general curiosity seems to end with fourth-grade geography and the fact that Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable body of water on earth. Yet this vast land mass, drooping from North America like some ripe, unplucked fruit, has produced some of this century's major poets and novelists: Peru's Cesar Vallejo, Chile's Pablo Neruda, Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez of Colombia...
...pleased with the race. Except for that choppy water at the half mile mark it felt really good. After that start there was no doubt we were going to win--it was nice and smooth," said Boit...