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...favor of an early return to "constitutional democracy." Wrote Acheson: "Greeks both ancient and modern have had grave trouble when they experimented with nonauthoritarian rule. Certainly no friend of Greece would wish to see her return to the 'constitution government' of two Pa-pandreous, the old fool and the young rascal...
...visit to the Louvre with Minister of Culture Andre Malraux. "Ah," says le grand Charles, "a Matisse." "Non, mon general, that's a Monet." They move on. "Aha! A Cezanne." "Non, mon general -a Utrillo." A few minutes later, De Gaulle cries: "You can't fool me this time. That is a Picasso." 'Won, mon general," says Malraux sadly. "That is a mirror...
Much later, during the Truman Administration, Bob told his radio audience: "I loved the April Fools' gag a fellow pulled in Washington. He walked into the White House and said he was from Missouri, and before he could holler 'April fool!' he was a Cabinet member." By that time, Hope and his sidekicks-popeyed, siren-throated Jerry Colonna, Brenda and Cobina, and Bandleader Skinnay Ennis-had turned Tuesday into Bob Hope night in the U.S. Every Wednesday morning in those days, the Dow-Jones stock ticker used to carry the best of his jokes. During...
Raymond D. Senter. One explanation for all the artifice is that this is the age of the put-on, or the game of fool-the-squares. Could be, however, that the pseudonymists are fooling themselves...
Pantagleize is a fool in Christ, one of nature's eternal innocents. Played with gently preoccupied detachment by Ellis Rabb, an elongated matchstick of a man, Pantagleize casually scratches himself against the world and sets it flaming. It all happens quite inadvertently. He wakes up on his 40th birthday and wonders what his destiny is, or if his destiny is to have no destiny. "What a lovely day," he says, and his destiny begins. The words turn out to be the secret code for starting a revolution...