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...with the modern ones being made across the Channel at Aubusson (TIME. March 8,1948). Among the fine few, Sutherland's gawky Birds were abstract enough to look all right in wool. Stanley Spencer's cabbage-laden Gardener was both earthy and pretty, but The Garden of Fools., a soup-thin parody of medieval tapestry design by Surrealist Cecil Collins, was neither. "The fool," explained Collins brightly, "is the symbol of creative innocence embattled with the modern machine . . . The saint, the artist, the poet and the fool are one; they are the eternal virginity of spirit . . ." It seemed...
...leaflet distributed by the Committee for Constitutional Government, the well-heeled, reactionary Washington lobby backed by New York State Publisher Frank Gannett. In printing what Lincoln hadn't said, nobody had felt the need to print something that he did say. "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time...
...Snead did not let the gift of one stroke fool him. He stalked down the foggy fairways like a man half expecting an ambush. It took two hours to play the first eight holes. Always a deliberate player, Hogan was taking more time than usual between shots, partly to conserve strength and partly to wear on Sam Snead's notably uncertain nervous system. On the eighth hole with the match even, both men pitched to within twelve feet of the pin to putt for birdies...
...oddest, features of the play is the part of Thersites, who, largely detached from the action, observes and comments on the events about him. He combines the functions of the Shakespearian "fool" with the chorus of a Greek drama, and his bitter words seem to be the theme of the play "still wars and lechery--nothing else holds fashion." Albert Marre has avoided the ranting style he used in the previous performance, and speaks with just about the proper degree of bitter cynicism...
This state of affairs has not embittered him. "Professional swimmers are a bunch of fools," he says; and as far as his professional swimmin gis concerned, he does not expect to be treated like anything but a fool. Four years of steady competition has given him a philosophy: "The biggest thrill in pro swimming is when you get the prize money right in your hand...