Word: jest
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...knocked out," declared Perry Rathbone. director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. "No museum purchase funds can keep up with prices like that." Perhaps not. But Boston was sufficiently interested in the auction to discuss with Thomas Moving, director of New York's Metropolitan Museum, "half in jest, but half seriously," the idea that Boston and the Met pool their available funds to buy the Velásquez. The underbidder at Friday's auction, a firm of London dealers named Thomas Agnew. was rumored to be bidding on behalf of Washington's National Gallery...
...spokesmen said other supersonic jest from the Hancock equipped with spy gear including highly sophisticated cameras streaked into North Vietnam to photograph supply buildups awaiting shipment southward...
...burned out or spiritually polluted or lying fallow, and empty souls stood whispering their personal regrets: for him it was more important to consider what might have been than what might yet be. Mailer might lead you to witness an electrocution where God in a key moment of fine jest caused the power lines to fail; Styron would not once think of God permitting a botched execution, though he might include Him among the later mourners at the grave: probably He would be solemn and sigh...
...Henry Kissinger is "an egocentric maniac. He loves to appear in the newspapers with Jill St. John. But when he gets back to the office, he's really a brilliant man." (The term "egocentric maniac" would only have been spoken in jest, Mitchell aides maintain...
...Krauts"; another speaks of "the throne nursers." Kissinger refers to the other two as "the Praetorian Guard," and Haldeman and Ehrlichman are widely called "Von Haldeman" and "Von Ehrlichman"?or simply "the Germans." The nicknames are used by officials inside the White House and out, sometimes in jest, sometimes in bitterness. While Attorney General John Mitchell is not technically part of the White House staff, he comes in for equal criticism because Nixon consults him regularly about the whole panoply of presidential problems; his special intimacy