The coarsest type of humor is the practical joke: pulling away the chair from the dignitary's lowered bottom. the victim is perceived first as a person of consequence, then suddenly an inert body subject to the laws of physics: authority is debunked by gravity, mind by matter; man is degraded to a mechanism

On their way home, what do claudia and jamie decide to do? a. visit the museum every week with mrs. frankweiler and make more discoveries about the exhibits b. tell saxonberg about the mystery behind the angel statue and give the sketch to the museum c. introduce mrs. frankweiler to their parents and tell her that they have adopted her as their grandmother d. visit mrs. frankweiler as often as they can and adopt her as their grandmother

Marian recently made the decision to try to re-wallpaper her own kitchen—which was a mistake given her personality! to compound the mistake, she selected a complex wallpaper pattern that included flowers and trees. each time she put one strip of paper on the wall, she became increasingly upset if there was not a perfect match from the pattern of one strip to the next. if one flower was off by as much as one-tenth of an inch, she would tear down the strip, remove the excess paste, and try again with the next strip. over eight hours after she started this job, she has only succeeded at putting up six strips of wallpaper, which covered about 10 percent of the room in which she was working. marian may suffer from personality disorder.

Which of the following is true about countries like england after they industrialized? a. workers usually made less money. b. people began moving to the country. c. time for leisure activities decreased. d. overall standard of living increased.