Word: fooled
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...quiet way, Bates writes about appearance and reality. His characters wear masks of habit that fool even themselves. Then something happens, and the revelation comes. A hard-bitten nurse, busy convoying wounded soldiers, discovers even to her own surprise that she has a warm heart. A young wife, ground down by a pompous and much older husband, gets a clutch on herself-and evens the balance by smashing his false teeth. The title story examines a group of R.A.F. pilots through the critical eyes of an old army officer, who gradually learns that beneath their abruptness and diffidence lies courage...
...child. The old lady controlled the family purse strings; she hired the bride's servants, and ruled the bride's house and husband: Franklin always deferred to his mother. A longtime acquaintance remembers Sara Roosevelt saying before company, in thoughtless brutality: "Eleanor, don't act the fool...
...stays in the body indefinitely after it has lost its radioactivity. Silver concentrates faster, and the body gets rid of most of it. However, radioactive silver is hard to make in a pile and therefore is hard to get. So in Nashville, Biochemist Paul F. Hahn is trying to fool the body by silver-plating his radio-gold...
...April, is a Boston premiere. Slightly reminiscent of the Faust legend, Harlequin represents "human aspiration reborn with the flowers in April. This aspiration makes it possible for him to break away from the plants, who are earthbound and self-sufficient." As the curtains draw back, you see Pierrot, the fool, garbed in a baggy white robe. Using magic, he transforms what looks like a mound of objects into humans who writhe as it in Dante's Interno. The mystic mood is extremely moving, especially when Pirman Treeu battles with an ever-increasing host of unicorns to win Columbine. Treeu...
...spoken rudely of such sacrosanct characters as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ("It is time that [his] pedestal were dismounted") and Bertrand Russell ("He made a fool of himself"). He has spoken ill of children ("the most imperfect of all human beings") and dogs ("they are only brutes"). He has dared to say, several times and in public, that Darwin was wrong. He has committed the modern heresy of declaring that there are such permanent, absolute values as Truth and Justice. Like a Socratic traveling salesman, he has moved up & down the country, talking to the young and causing acute attacks...