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Referring to your article, "Dishonest Abe," in which you assert that Lincoln said, "You can fool all the people some of the time . . ." etc. [TIME...
...contrast, the usually successful actors of the Brattle group seemed almost high-schoolish. Only Jerry Kilty, in the curious role of the Fool, and Thayer David, in the part of the feeble old Earl of Gloucester, the subplot equivalent of Lear, make really individual contributions. Peter Temple is sturdy and even humorous in the essentially mechanical role of Kent Jan Farrand and Joan Croyden are highly successful in differentiating the wicked daughters, Regan and Goneril, but at the expense of an over-feline Regan by Miss Farrand...
...neither a fool with a frozen smile, Nor a sad old toad in a cask of bile; He can dance with a shoe nail in his heel, And never a sign of his pain reveal...
...skip over the news of the H-bomb in the papers," said a man in London last week, "and then I look at my neighbor and think: 'How can that fool sit there and read how they're going to blow him up and never bat an eye?' " Doc Hicks, proprietor of a barbershop on South Audubon Road, Indianapolis, summed up for his customers: "I don't think the public understands it. That's why they don't talk much about it." The "it" was certainly hard to understand, and so men talked...
...pilfer, but his mother did her best to counteract the effects of poverty and slums by encouraging her son in the religious life. When he finally decided to become a minister after graduating from Wilberforce University, she was delighted. But his farmer father exclaimed: "You're a fool to spend your life going through the world making your living off the damned niggers...