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...feels he must go three times as fast to make up for lost time," he continued, "and finding this impossible, often makes a fool of himself...
...have been, the Cincinnati Art Museum this week opened an exhibition focused on twelve rediscovered American painters whose work was all but forgotten until 20 years ago. Ranging from colonial New England, where portraits by Robert Feke (1705-1750) were long assumed to be early Copleys, down to fool-the-eye works by William M. Harnett (1848-1892) and John F. Peto (1854-1907), the exhibition shows that U.S. artists in the past scored higher in imagination and craftsmanship than a forgetful country realized...
...first place, you fool, you have to know what you want. And you don't, and probably never will. This puts you at a distinct disadvantage with the ladies, who know exactly what they want: lots of fun, lots of laughs, a bachelor's degree, and an intelligent, strong, pliable husband. Secondly, you have to know how to get what you're after (if anything)--which is the most difficult part. Every victory turns to defeat, and the spoils of victory vanish without a trace. They'll tromp on you, boy, they'll pluck your heart out and crack...
...Real Home. John Cranko's Lady and the Fool was a romantic period piece set to little-known Verdi music-the story of an imperious beauty, well danced by statuesque Beryl Grey, who spurns aristocratic lovers and goes off with a clown. If the choreography seemed unoriginal and the story flimsy, the dandies were properly elegant, the flirts suitably flouncy, the clown appealingly...
...champion of the ruggedest sort of individualism, surprised its readers with an editorial essay in praise of contestants who stop at $32,000: "Practice moderation consistently," urged the News, "and you are very unlikely to go broke, die of overeating or overdrinking, make enemies unnecessarily or make a fool of yourself." The New York Post turned the subject over to its prize pundit, Max Lerner. In a six-article series, Lerner pontificated that "anyone who takes American popular culture seriously must try to get at ... the sources of The Question's success . . . what it reveals about the American mind...