Word: fooled
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...narrative he wrote captures his era as bawdily and well as do Hogarth's engravings. But in any good memoir it is the man, not the times, whose flavor dominates. Hickey, neither as deep as Boswell nor as intense as Casanova, still was something other than a fool with a strong constitution and a good memory. He had no malice and little self-deception, much humor and courage. While Portuguese sailors caught in a hurricane might, as he reported with British condescension, abandon their sails and flock round their priest, he himself had the perseverance that built an empire...
...Just Sit By Me." Although McCormack is extraordinarily thin-skinned himself, he can and does dish it out with one of the House's roughest tongues. Once, in the middle of a formal debate, he bluntly called Representative Earl Wilson of Indiana a "damned fool," and was required to retract his words. Again, in a 1953 argument with Michigan's acidulous Republican Representative Clare Hoffman, McCormack delivered an insult that is still recalled whenever Congressmen trade stories. "I would defend the Gentleman," he said, in a mockery of the politest parliamentary style, "because I have a minimum high...
What to do? In desperation, Mrs. Stone consults an aristocratic procuress, a ludicrous old mascaraed barracuda who calls herself La Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales (Lotte Lenya). The lady provides Mrs. Stone with a handsome young escort called Paolo (Warren Beatty), who has big shoulders and a small title. No fool like an old fool. She falls absurdly in love with the boy, belabors him with costly presents and senescent lust. In the end, of course, he gets tired of it all and runs off with a Hollywood cinemama who offers him more fun, and more money...
...tried its first dose of Ivy League "altruism" last week, and didn't like it. The Faculty Council of the nation's leading football (and basketball) power voted 28 to 25 not to allow its magnificent eleven to accept a bid to the Rose Bowl, after which, as any fool could have predicted, all hell broke loose in Columbus...
...this, and do it well. Stanley F. Pickett as Mr. Horner is a grinning, leering wonder. Yet his part is perhaps easier than those of Mr. Pinchwife (Michael Rowan), and Mr. Sparkish (Howard Kramer), and Sir Jasper (Chuck Breyer). Rowan creates a convincing picture of a blustery old fool; Kramer is the biggest, dumbest fop you or I have ever seen; and Breyer is hilarious as the Ed Wynn-ish cuckold...