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...name is the matter with that monkey." Ike fretting about riding to his inauguration with outgoing President Harry Truman: "I wonder if I can stand sitting next to him." Ike offering a definition of leadership: "You do not lead by hitting people over the head. Any damn fool can do that, but it's usually called 'assault.' not 'leadership.' I'll tell you what leadership is: it's persuasion -and conciliation-and education-and patience. It's long. slow, tough work. That's the only kind of leadership I know...
John Kemp (Achilles) has plenty of bite and some of the funniest lines in the play. ("Puke much, gentry?) He does his family name credit, playing the simple fool to his hyper-sophisticated friends and cutting through their chi-chi with a fine sense of timing...
...Elusive Corporal. "The young man who has not wept is a savage," said George Santayana, "and the old man who will not laugh is a fool." In Grand Illusion, made in 1937, when he was 43, Jean Renoir wept for the worlds that die in wars. In Corporal, made last year, when he was 67, Renoir laughs for the worlds that are born in debacle. And while he's about it he laughs at the ridiculous ideas people have about freedom. Renoir's laughter is contagious. Nobody will consider his new war film as fine...
...this gaiety fool you," a Budapest writer warned an American visitor after a Farsang ball. "The young people are gay because they are young. The old people-they are gay because they don't know what comes tomorrow...
...multinational" Polaris force promised by 1968 in place of the Skybolt does not fool many people. Like all other "multinational" NATO programs, it will be under the effective control of the United States...