Word: folderols
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Predictably, Italian critics did not spare their barbs at the once tempestuous diva. "A boring and costly family party" was how one described the first-night folderol. Critic Duilio Courir tartly suggested that I Vespri Siciliani, as one of Verdi's most complex works, was "surely not advisable for beginners...
...place but Rome! So insisted French President Georges Pompidou, when he first proposed to visit Italy for talks with President Giovanni Leone and Premier Giulio Andreotti. Pompidou explained that he wanted to skip a formal trip to the Eternal City in order to avoid the folderol-state dinners, motorcades, military honors, perhaps a papal audience-that would get in the way of the "working visit" he envisioned. Instead, he suggested something "like my meeting with Mr. Heath at Chequers," the country estate where he had met informally with the British Prime Minister last March...
...rich and bored bourgeoisie for the largest part of their student body. My class was not "a how-to course in witchcraft"-there is no such thing, there never can be. There is no such program as "how to be a witch in ten easy lessons." Witchcraft is not folderol-it is the first religion known to man, a very ancient pagan religion antedating Christianity by thousands of years...
Beyond such folderol, astrology has been taken seriously by serious students. They believe that the ancient religion and superstition from which it springs are embedded in the unconscious of modern man. Psychiatrist Carl G. Jung referred to it as a "scientia intuitiva," and often had horoscopes cast for his patients. The idea was not to predict their futures but to call attention to elements that might or might not lie in their personalities. A horoscope showing excessive fatherlove and tendencies toward sadism, he realized, could be used to provoke talk, self-analysis and perhaps insight. "Today," wrote Jung, "rising...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The International Toboggan championship in Saint-Moritz, the World Championship Auto Demolition Derby in Islip, N.Y., and a look at the folderol and fakery surrounding the Feb. 6 Cassius Clay-Ernie Terrell heavyweight champion- ship fight...