Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perverting the truth was not invented by Buckley but by the cynical school of Sophists thousands of years ago. Any fool can learn the rules, and if followed by a parrot, he could appear as a wise old bird to the child-brained. ALFRED FABRE Casa Grande, Ariz...
...mother, Mavis Pearl, straightened him out right quick. "Stop talking like a fool," she said...
...plenty money nineteen twen'y-two; You let other people make a fool of you; Why don't you do right, like some other...
Each speaker who followed Dellinger was trying to out-epithet the others. Norman Mailer '43 had called Lyndon Johnson "an imbecile" the day before. Now John Wilson of SNCC was calling Lyndon Johnson a "criminal" and "a fool." And Dr. Benjamin Spock chipped in: "The enemy, we believe in all sincerity, is Lyndon Johnson...
Tragicomic Figure. The Manor, written between 1953 and 1955 but now appearing for the first time in English, could be the breakthrough book to gain Singer the wider audience he deserves. Like all of his fiction (The Magician of Lublin, Gimpel the Fool), this work is a subtle form of autobiography, projecting the author's own sense of exile. It embraces a quarter of a century of change in the life of a Jewish family near Warsaw in 1863. If the time and plot sound remote, the theme is not. The central character is a kind of petit bourgeois...