In English writing, the phrase " a modest proposal " is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.

Reading The Eye of Argon aloud has been made into a game, as described by SF critic Dave Langford in SFX magazine: " The challenge of death, at SF conventions, is to read The Eye of Argon aloud, straight-faced, without choking and falling over.

Teal ' c is a " stalwart alien with the unfathomable – and mostly silent – demeanor " and " the most straight-faced member of SG-1 ".

Although targeted primarily at adults, BrikWars is known for its straight-faced acceptance of the kinds of ridiculous scenarios and multi-genre mashups that arise naturally when children dump out their unsorted toybins on the floor.

Charles Kimbrough ( born May 23, 1936 ) is an American character actor known for having played the straight-faced anchorman Jim Dial on Murphy Brown.

McMahon's art is blocky, all straight, edgy lines and enclosed, flat areas of deep, vivid colour, stylised yet straight-faced, perfectly straddling the low-key realism of the story and Pilgrim's increasingly desperate mental state.

), written in Satie's most humorously straight-faced manner, and reminiscent of some of Satie's other works-the waltz, for example, is a slightly more " mechanical " version of the music reappearing a year later in his Trois valses distinguées du précieux dégouté.

Carlo Santos from Anime News Network has described Strawberry Marshmallow as " a clever little comedy that delivers laughs via its straight-faced approach " and has mentioned that " There is something uniquely appealing about Marshmallows deadpan delivery ".

but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.

We are reminded, however, that freedom of thought and discussion, the unfettered exchange of ideas, is basic under our form of government.

As a means of silencing a discussion which ought to have taken place, the statement is an effective one: we sympathize with the universal confusion which gives rise to such convictions.

The United States is always ready to participate with the Soviet Union in serious discussion of these or any other subjects that may lead to peace with justice.

The discussion is therefore limited to a suggested procedure for realizing at least some of the potential importance of this volume for future policy.

F.S.C. Northrop, in his discussion of The `` Functions And Future Of Poetry '', suggests this: `` One of the things which makes our lives drab and empty and which leaves us, at the end of the day, fatigued and deflated spiritually is the pressure of the taxing, practical, utilitarian concern of common-sense objects.

My last gift to him is complete silence until the book is out and the first heated discussion dies down.

Thus in a context in which there has been discussion of snow but mention of local conditions is new, dominant stress will probably be on here in it rarely snows here, but in a context in which there has been discussion of local weather but no mention of snow, dominant stress will probably be on snows.

but if George has just been mentioned prominently ( and the trip to be made has been under discussion ), what is said is probably I'll go with him, and dominant stress is probably on the preposition with.

First is the long and still somewhat obscure process of preparation, planning and discussion.

For the purposes of this discussion, the problem of relative prices is encompassed in these two variables, since GNP includes other prices.

The first reason would never apply to a reorganization transfer which meets the conditions of section 381(a), which is the only type presently under discussion.

What follows is therefore a description of three separate undertakings, the new frescoing of the gap, and the successive essays in conservation, with some discussion of problems that arose in connection with each.

Since I have already discussed his moral position, that discussion is incorporated by reference into the following pages, which will focus on the empirical and analytic side of Fromm's treatment.

The discussion of the optimal policy when the outcome of one stage is not known before passing to the next is a very much more difficult matter.

As `` a matter of fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in any case,, and what is more, every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams ''.

Our discussion does not utilize all the identity crises postulated by Erikson, but is intended to demonstrate the utility of his theoretical schema for studying unwed mothers.

For all involved in this discussion the devil is a real entity who can really be confronted in the woods on a dark night, the demon world is populated with real creatures, and witches actually can be seen flying through the air.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

`` Oh, it's that myth, about Orpheus and What is her name??

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.

There is little time for the men in the command centers to reflect about the implications of these clocks.

Already accidental war is a silent guest at the discussions within the Kennedy Administration about the urgency of disarmament and nearly all other questions of national security.

It is their job to think about the unthinkable.

In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.

It has nothing of the proud stride of the trained runner about it, it is not a lope, it is not done with style or verve.

Steinberg spoke with warmth and enthusiasm about Italy: `` Rome is my second home.

Or is it relevant because it teaches us something useful to know about ourselves??

In the work of every artist, I suppose, there may be found one or more moments which strike the student as absolutely decisive, ultimately emblematic of what it is all about ; ;

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

that is, about one-half of one per cent, which looks pretty `` tokenish '' to me, especially in an institution which professes to be `` national ''.

I'm talking about the grand manner of the Liberal -- North and South -- who is not affected personally.

Robert Penn Warren puts it this way in `` Brother To Dragons '': `` The recognition of complicity is the beginning of innocence '', where innocence, I think, means about the same thing as redemption.

Especially touching is the chapter, `` The Little Sister '', about a king's daughter who became a nun in the convent of St. Birgitta.

The dweller at p is last to hear about a new cure, the slowest to announce to his neighbors his urgent distresses, the one who goes the farthest to trade, and the one with the greatest difficulty of all in putting over an idea or getting people to join him in a cooperative effort.

The assumptions upon which the example shown in Figure 3 is based are: ( A ) One man can direct about six subordinates if the subordinates are chosen carefully so that they do not need too much personal coaching, indoctrinating, etc..

( B ) A message runs too great a risk of being distorted if it is to be relayed more than about six consecutive times.

So we see that a specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less as he develops, as contrasted to the generalist, who knows less and less about more and more.