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...Manchester Guardian: "World opinion will be shocked. . . . The Government has not so much credit left in the world that it can afford to squander it in acts of unpremeditated folly." Added the News Chronicle: "British conduct ... is moving rapidly to the ultimate stage of lunacy. . . . No one but a fool would try to compel a Jew to go to Germany of all countries...
...will show up in Rio. For her there will be more parties-at the presidential palace, at the town hall, at the Foreign Office. And would Argentina's President Perón join his wife in Rio? Firmly the Brazilians said no. "He wouldn't be fool enough to try to steal some of Truman's thunder...
...Atlantic trade we have a saying: 'We blow the fog horn for five hot-weather months and blow on our fingers to keep warm the other seven.' When fogs abound, any captain of a ship like this who doesn't watch the sea himself is a fool, sir, a fool...
...Hello. This is Hedda Hopper. Put Joan on....Hello, Joan?...All right, dear, tell me all about it....Well, he says it's pretty serious. . . . Oh, come on, you can't fool me. Are you in love with him? . . . Now look, dear, I always ask personal questions....Well, how do you get a man to hang that much mink around your neck if you're not serious about him?...I know you're hedging. You can't fool Hopper....Well, you can answer whether you're in love with the guy and intend...
Free to Be a Fool. It is only after the hero has sampled the conventional attitudes of Bohemia that he realizes their inadequacy and achieves absolution by embracing "the age of reason" (i.e., an understanding of his own self-dependence). Writhing in an existentialist trance, he proclaims the Sartrian gospel: "... It is by my agency that everything must happen." The author sums up: "Even if he let himself be carried off in helplessness and in despair ... he would have chosen his own damnation: he was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine...