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Catchwords and phrases from Li'l Abner such as "amoozin but confoozin," "as any fool can plainly see," "natcherly" and both "sob" and "gulp" used as spoken expletives, have become immovably anchored in American idiom. His Shmoos and Kigmies are as easily identifiable to most Americans as cantaloupes and cows...
This weekend the stands must get up and get behind Tuss McLaughry and his boys 100 percent. Every player on the field of the Cambridge Stadium must fool that there is a Dartmouth man squarely behind him. There must BE a Dartmouth man squarely behind him. Another exhibition like last week's will topple Dartmouth to Coach McLaughry's lowest ebb, unless we as a College got right behind the team. Dave Grogan...
Self-Made Doctor [TIME, Sept. 25] is a sad commentary on the . . . medical profession . . . An individual with less than a high-school education is able to fool the authorities of several hospitals and their various staffs for five years...
...Alvin Johnson, the best place for such men & women is the expanding field of adult education. There, he believes, they can use their talents freely ("no roll calls, no fool examinations, no bibliographies that no one ever reads, no jargon that no one ever understands") and still not stand in the way of promotion for younger teachers...
Waltari lets his fool rush into every crime a man can commit, and into many of the major scenes of the 16th Century -Michael is present at the Stockholm Massacre of 1520 and the sack of Rome by the troops of Emperor Charles V. He talks with Luther and Erasmus, studies with Paracelsus. In this way, the reader gets alternate doses of high and low life that may be intended, like the hot & cold treatments of a Finnish steam bath, to make him tingle all over. In Waltari overdoses, the treatment brings on numbness...