Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...means of death with no end in sight-until there are no more immoral governments or there is another war that will not even be war as hitherto known, but a holocaustic catastrophe. Those who say that the whole business should stop are called "idealists"-a noble sort of fool. But they alone are using reason amidst the grotesque dance of death. Total, universal, simultaneous disarmament, to be completed within a definite time, ending armies, navies, and air forces, conscription and the manufacture of conventional and unconventional weapons, is the only disarmament that requires minimum external control. It would solve...
...strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke." The setting for Melville's vast practical joke 'is a Mississippi riverboat, named Fidèle, on a run from St. Louis to New Orleans. The day is April Fool's Day. The characters are a bustling "congress of all kinds of that multiform pilgrim species, man . . . farm-hunters and fame-hunters, heiress-hunters, gold-hunters, buffalo-hunters, bee-hunters, happiness-hunters, truth-hunters and still keener hunters after all" these hunters." The multiform hunters are uniform prey; they...
...never be confused with the strains of Bandleader Guy ("the sweetest music this side of Heaven") Lombardo, double-crossed his own feverish admirers. Between gulps, Satchmo satchmoed: "Lombardo's the greatest. He is relaxin'. He got a good style, and he ain't tryin' to fool nobody. The new cats around now, they ain't provin' nothin...
...Wages of Fear is not a drama of character; Clouzot is much more interested in ideas than in people. At the social level his idea is simple: hate America. His four figures are intended to signify Italy, Germany, and two aspects of the French soul, all sent on a fool's errand to pull U.S. chestnuts out of the fire. The propaganda is mostly vicious and irresponsible, occasionally clearsighted, always clever. U.S. audiences, however, will not be subjected to most of it. Most of the hate-America stuff was hacked out of the original, which ran close to three...
...Shank & Three Trombones (Pacific Jazz LP). Further adventures of West Coast jazzmen in their new instrumental colors. This one features plush sounds that should please even the cats who do not quite dig Saxophonist Shank. Titles: Valve in Head, Cool Fool, Wailing Vessel...