Word: fooled
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...beautiful city, what a beautiful country! But such foolish things have happened there. Some people have called it counterrevolution; some called it revolution. I think it was just foolishness. Perhaps it would have been possible not to give Imre Nagy such a harsh sentence, because he was just a fool...
Joint Chuckle. Reaction to Khrushchev's naked renege ranged from sneers to near tears. "On again, off again, Finnigin," shrugged Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. KHRUSHCHEV MAKES FOOL OF HIMSELF, headlined London's tabloid Daily Mirror. "Responsibility for evading [a summit] meeting with the Security Council rests squarely with the Soviet Union," lamented the Times of India...
Fifteen-year old Anthony ("writer, artist, translator, hack; gambler, sensualist, fool ... onlooker at his own ruin") spies Christine ("white tennis costume... dove gray fur jacket ... full of fun") in a tea-room, launching 18 years of unrequited love...
They meet again nearly two decades later amid the summer languors of the Riviera. Life has been rough. The adult Anthony is now a "writer, artist, translator, hack; gambler, sensualist, fool," and more importantly, has become an "onlooker at his own ruin." Cursed with a slim annuity adequate for subsistence but not for pleasure, he has slowly lowered himself into squalor "as by a rope." Christiane's failures have paced his own: two unsuccessful marriages (one to a South American millionaire, the other to a German industrialist) and a scandal of a perversity startling even to Paris...
...wore a fool's cap crowned with tiny bells, and he strummed, of all things, a lyre--probably brass, but it looked gold. And he said...