Word: fooled
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...billing at Penn's Franklin Field on Saturday describes a ten-team contest, with all the Ivy track teams, Army and Navy. But don't let that Heptagonal P.R. work fool you. Most of the trackmen entering the Heps have conceded title aspirations to Penn, Navy, Cornell, and Harvard only...
...there is," says Haggard. Besides, the open road, the one-night gigs, meeting people-all these make a way of life that Haggard would no more give up than he would casting for smallmouthed bass in a cold, clear, wilderness lake. As he puts it in Ev 'ry Fool Has a Rainbow...
Adams, whose natural reaction is to be politely condescending, grossly underestimates Giles. Though Giles makes a fool of himself in public, he works stealthily behind the lines by befriending Marjorie and the children. While Adams is off researching and occasionally sharing the girl friend of an old Cambridge classmate, Giles and Marjorie become quite chummy. Just how far they go is kept calculatedly unclear by the author at the book's climax. In doing so, Bunting underscores the point that for Adams to be cuckolded by a social inferior is bad enough, but not to be sure...
...saving on trading costs. Yet, reflecting the caution of the ailing securities industry, the effort got off to a sluggish start. Only a few major brokerage firms unveiled cut-rate commission plans-and those were hedged about by so many restrictions as to make them seem an April Fool's joke...
...impressive is that all this is done so lightly, so cleverly, that it ought to embarrass the critic to get heavy about it. Stoppard's plots are so well devised, every funny line is so well ensconced in its context, that the critic is put in danger of being fooled himself, and looking the fool if he tries to put his hands on the heart of these plays. The only real inspector must be the spectator, on the scene...