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...flirtation with him (they exchanged playful love letters on behalf of their cats), and remembered him as a man given to "sarcasm of very keen edge" and so "inclined to corpulence" that he had to have a semicircular hole cut in the table to accommodate him at meals. "A fool," the doctor used to say to Anna, "is a man who never tried an experiment." Erasmus tried them all the time, and occasionally they worked. He prescribed electric shock for jaundice and scarlet fever, purges for the gout, blood transfusions for cases of consumption. His "Commonplace Book" is full...
...minor characters in his book, however, he has a self-conscious horror of stating the obvious. To dress up his homely conclusions, De Vries detours compulsively into literary didoes, lapses into wild parody, wallows in grotesqueries. To be sure, G. B. Shaw sugared his pill to fool the public. But De Vries, apparently, sugars his to fool himself...
...call for help when accidentally locked in a public bathroom. The Playboy asks the Law student, "Why not throw yourself into life," and the Law Student cleverly counters, "I worry where I'm going to fall." The Playboy mutters to us all, "You're right, I'm the fool." Clunk...
...three U.S. fliers were returned at week's end to West Germany, the nagging question still remained. "I think they feel in Moscow the same way we do," said one Air Force officer. "If they could have reached out and put their hands over that damn fool's gun, they would have. And if we could have thrown a rope up in the air and pulled those poor guys back, we would have...
...Fool & School. Menotti moves through music like a troop ship avoiding U-boats-back and forth, in and out. He darts from failure (Labyrinth) to triumph (The Death of the Bishop of Brindisi) with great agility, but nothing he has written since 1955 can approach the genius of The Saint of Bleecker Street or even The Consul. Aside from one or two pleasant arias and one superb septet, there is very little in the Savage that suggests its composer's grand reputation. The music could have been written any time after 1850, and the libretto could have been improved...