Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...April, is a Boston premiere. Slightly reminiscent of the Faust legend, Harlequin represents "human aspiration reborn with the flowers in April. This aspiration makes it possible for him to break away from the plants, who are earthbound and self-sufficient." As the curtains draw back, you see Pierrot, the fool, garbed in a baggy white robe. Using magic, he transforms what looks like a mound of objects into humans who writhe as it in Dante's Interno. The mystic mood is extremely moving, especially when Pirman Treeu battles with an ever-increasing host of unicorns to win Columbine. Treeu...
...spoken rudely of such sacrosanct characters as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ("It is time that [his] pedestal were dismounted") and Bertrand Russell ("He made a fool of himself"). He has spoken ill of children ("the most imperfect of all human beings") and dogs ("they are only brutes"). He has dared to say, several times and in public, that Darwin was wrong. He has committed the modern heresy of declaring that there are such permanent, absolute values as Truth and Justice. Like a Socratic traveling salesman, he has moved up & down the country, talking to the young and causing acute attacks...
...Parliament is brought under the law it will look like a fool...
Therefore, the way to make Parliament reform the laws of England is to make it look like a fool...
...Anglo-Irish logic. Herbert's family come from Muckross. The Herbert argument may be found in Shaw and Joyce. It may be heard in any Irish bar. The man who said, "Nobody has any sense in this world unless he hasn't and he's a fool too" was using such logic. He had just been burnt out, with apologies, by his devoted tenants...