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TITLE: NOBODY'S FOOL...
...replaced the towns as economic centers, is that they were wonderful, warm places where even the local drunk was part of the patchwork and where attention was paid. That's the genial view taken by novelist Richard Russo in The Risk Pool, Mohawk and his new book Nobody's Fool, three funny, loose-jointed yarns about backwater burgs in upstate New York. Doubtless it is contrary to recall the rest of the truth, which is that small towns were rigidly small-minded. That was the engine that drove American literature for several generations, as exasperated young writers, fed up with...
Professor Dan Ben-Amos, an expert in Black culture and a linguistics expert, corroborated Jacobowitz's contention that "water buffalo" was a derivation of the Yiddish word "behema" which means "water oxen" and is slang for a "stupid person" or "fool...
Trillin candidly describes his own fumbling attempts to adjust: "I was remarkably easy to fool." Others, like Denny, never found their feet again. His jobs grew less significant, and influential friends dropped away. He never married. At a Big Chill session, one mourner suggests that the deceased had "unreasonably high standards." Another concludes that he was a suppressed homosexual. Still another observes that despite the scholar-athlete's "million-dollar smile," he was an emotional basket case, suffering from clinical depression...
...good connections and powerful names when making deals these days. "We certainly don't look at ourselves as a refuge for former government employees," says Carlucci, who joined Carlyle in 1989 and sits on the board of a staggering 32 companies and nonprofit organizations. "But I'd be a fool to deny that having a number of high- profile officeholders does provide Carlyle with certain advantages." Explains Samuel Hayes, a Harvard Business School professor: "The Carlyle Group has gone after former government officials whom top businessmen love to be seen with. Finding potential companies to acquire can be very tough...