Word: fooled
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...fool can plainly see, it is Nikita Khrushchev...
...there is edge to the novel. Green Henry is intelligent enough to discover, eventually, that he is a bit of a fool, and that he is not a very good artist. He gives up the artistic life, as does the hero of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister (Keller, though much influenced by Goethe, himself turned to writing only after a futile try at becoming a painter). His wanderings are over, and he returns home in time to see his mother die, and to build a new career as government functionary...
...aisle were Yoruba tribesmen wrapped in gold, yellow and orange with little porkpie beanies on their heads. Between them, they constituted one of the world's noisiest Parliaments. Each speaker was greeted with cries of "Heah, heah" from his friends and derisory shouts of "Sit down, you wretched fool" from his foes; from the rostrum came the perennial plea for "Odah, odah!" But somehow, through the din, the nation's problems got discussed and decided...
...with every part of my body," says the Cleveland Browns' Bobby Mitchell (6 ft., 190 Ibs.). "I use the shoulder shake and I use the head shake and I wiggle the hips. They all help to throw the tackier off balance." For Mitchell, the easiest defensive backs to fool are the fastest of foot. "They come up quickly and commit themselves right away. A slower one is harder to go all the way on. When I've got a blocker in front of me, we try to 'freeze' him by running straight...
...those evils against which angry dissent is more effective than understanding and tolerance; for the trouble is that Eisenhower is leaving as popular as he came. Unless the press and the public rub the point in, American governments will learn just how easy it is to fool all of the people all of the time...