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...what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep...
...Hemingway recommends just that in an introduction where he says, ironically, that it "may throw some light on what has been written as fact." Take his account of Scott Fitzgerald. The indictment-by-anecdote is irresistibly funny, but was the author of The Great Gatsby such a petulant clown, fatuous snob, and pathetic simpleton about...
Fortunately, the thirty-two essays in A Stress Analysis are neither so fatuous nor so foolish as the preface. Some are funny. In his autobiographical notes, Einstein wrote that "the essential in the being of a man of my type lies precisely in what he thinks and how he thinks, not in what he does or suffers." Scientific humor is mostly about their thought and the products of it: lot of it is word play. public: the comedy is over. Too bad that we have ended up in Hell...
...word was my bond. When I told you I was not going to testify, that ended it." Again, Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell asked if Baker, who had begun his career as a Senate pageboy, had any ideas about improving pageboy hiring practices. To a fatuous question, came a gratuitous answer. Advised Bobby: "There are many fine orphan boys in the District...
...fatuous sentences appear too often: "For only one man under our system is President...