Word: fool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assertions aside, have been leaving the studio too fast. There are those who declare that Picasso is at last treating his mesmerized public to the joke skeptics accused him of playing as early as the 1900's. This, however, is difficult to accept. If the man has begun to fool anyone he has first gulled his own ego. These latest statements are fully as ingenuous as the most taut of his analytical cubist masterpieces, even if they are lacking in other respects...
...academics, of which any fool can find evidence by consulting the Sunday listings, began when human knowledge became so complex that the population was divided into two categories: the Expert and members of the general public. If the Expert's superior erudition fails to emerge during a program, we are told that we must blame its short duration--for there is seldom enough time. The general audience, blankly glazed before the home screen, is of course content to take the Expert's credentials as sufficient evidence that whatever he says is accurate. Whereas the humble citizen can express only opinions...
...still more months at the easel or on the scaffold. A minute error can be heartbreaking. In a recent scale model, Benton had painted a birchbark canoe being set on the ground by a group of Indians. "People looking at it would ask right off what kind of damn fool Indians would be dragging a birchbark canoe across rocky ground. That changed the mural's entire design and set me back weeks. I had to do the model all over again...
...Close to Discrimination." Khrushchev was in top form on the last day. Labeling Western leaders "dealers in blood, merchants of death," he demanded that "generals who think the U.S. would remain invulnerable in the event of another war should come out of their fool's paradise," and grasp that "coexistence is the paramount task of our time." "We shall win," he cried, "but we'll let you live...
...eyes fell sentimentally on a small card, whose simple words, "For My Loving Son," were framed in pale lilies. The Valentine he had received last year was just like it. They hadn't signed it, but Lucius was nobody's fool, and he knew it came from home. Getting right back to business, he slipped off his mittens and began searching through the cards...