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...Laertes leads to the palace and lectures him like a boy, and the depth of Ophelia's passion at her father's death shows up his foolishness. He stabs Hamlet not as a desperate act on the part of an honorable man, but as the venal act of a fool. The textual validity of the interpretation is somewhat questionable; Hamlet, after all, thinks of Laertes as a "very noble youth." Callum, however, makes a consistent and plausible character...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Hamlet | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...Cronyn sees him, is a buffoon, who turns most of his scenes with Hamlet into slapstick comedy. Cronyn wrings from the part all the humor that is there and a good deal, I think, that is not. He is Polonius from Hamlet's point of view, a "tedious old fool," without a trace of the skilled counselor who had been invaluable to Denmark...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Hamlet | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...investigation of Cassias Clay's contract; he is demanding the dethronement of Cassius X. The heart of Lassman's case against Clay is the champion's personal behavior and its effect upon "the boxing world" and "the youth of the world," and here Lassman betrays himself as a fool and a bigot...

Author: By Peter R. Kann, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/23/1964 | See Source »

FOXY dogsleds Bert Lahr up to the 1890s Yukon, and from there on the evening is fool's gold, a bonanza of comic Lahrgesse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Mar. 13, 1964 | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

...lines with Frederika and General James Van Fleet, head of the U.S. military mission, Paul zigzagged his car down a rough country road that was under heavy Communist fire. "If your husband wasn't King," Van Fleet exploded to Frederika, "I'd tell him what a damn fool I think he is." When the war was finally won in 1949, Paul could take a large share of the credit for unifying Greece against the Reds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: Long Live the King! | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

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