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Everything ends badly. William loses all his money, and Poodle, who has walked out on him, comes clinging back. The reader is left with the information that a fool is a fool and a feeling of bafflement about why a skillful author has chosen to pull the wings off this particular literary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Gingerless Man | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

This logic has its flaws. It is doubtful that such a pathetic legal maneuver would fool the Court of Appeals or any other court, although Stamler attorneys had preferred to take on HUAC in its original form. The new Committee will inherit the same liberal enemies and the same inimitable style of the deceased...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: By Any Other Name | 2/24/1969 | See Source »

...fell animals without injury be used on airline pirates. More elaborate is a recommendation to construct a bogus airport south of Miami to resemble Havana's José Martí International. Plastered with Bienvenido a la Habana signs and staffed by Cuban refugees, the airfield presumably would fool skyjackers long enough to ensure their arrest upon landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skyjacking: To Catch a Thief | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

There were other things to hold on to. Friends? They change and leave you. Family? Falling apart. Church? School? Government? Society? All empty shells. Love? Yes, love's not time's fool; but when your lover leaves, you are as lonely and as empty as before. What else it there...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Esalen and Harvard: Looking at Life From Both Sides Now | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...draped in black velvet, a staffer asked what he had. "It's uh-it's uh painting," he stammered. Indeed it was; the Post had found Norman Rockwell. Over the next 45 years, his hundreds of sentimental but sharply observed cover paintings-boy scouts and barbershops, April-fool jokes and baseball games-would come to represent the essence of the Post itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

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