Word: fooles
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...Utilize your spare time in devising ways to fool people...
...right with Antibes' practical-minded Mayor Jean Pastour. "In my mind," said the Mayor, "Picasso's paintings are . . . monstrous things. . . .Yet the world is full of madmen who love Picasso, so if Picasso gives our museum some paintings, we will accept and exhibit. Perhaps some crazy fool would come to see them and the town would make money...
...wife says I'm a fool-and she may be right. She often is. I don't even know what is wrong myself, only that something keeps gnawing away inside me, and life isn't as good as it looks. . . . My job at the factory is going nicely. We've got a nice little house and the kids are doing well. My wife is the best friend a man ever had. But all the time I've got the feeling that there is something missing. Like meat without salt. . . . Books don't seem...
...auto industry had dreamed of making 6,000,000 cars and trucks; it made only 3,000,000. Of the 1,200,000 houses blueprinted under Wilson Wyatt's program, the U.S. finished only about 700,000. And even the overall glitter of profits proved fool's gold in many an industry. Example: Westinghouse made more peacetime goods than ever-and had an operating loss of $50,000,000, twice as much as during the three worst years of the depression...
...last Lampoon was the ads. A careful reading of the entire issue brought me not a single laugh, not even a gentle smile. Things have reached the point that I read the Lampoon with the same attitude with which I approach Cunningham's column--just to see what the fool has to say this time...