Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James D. Wilkinson, head tutor of History and Literature, said Bosmag's advice to read one volume of Proust and say you are concentrating in History and Literature would not fool any Harvard students. "A clever History and Lit person would deny having read any Proust, but would really have read all seven volumes in French," he said...
...Henry James to crystalize these routine affairs into clear gems of human nature, we have to trust that the characters are the way they appear to be or are the way they say they are. When Felix wears bright flowered suspenders with checkered pants he looks like a fool. When Gertrude says that her family makes use of all 1000 ways to be dreary; when Felix says that in marrying him Gertrude would be hiding her light under a bushel, he being the bushel; and when Eugenia says she is a deserted baroness left with very little, there is nothing...
...Only a fool (or a Communist) would be opposed to the regeneration of America's military might. Of course everyone would like to see broad social programs enacted in this country, but when we're looking down the barrel of the Soviet Union's atomic shotgun, there's not much choice as to priorities...
...apart as Paris and Taos appear to be in the same time zone. The Festivale, though described as "very chic, very in, very high style," looks like a floating Ramada Inn. The script is a graveyard of unintentional boners. In one particularly cross moment, Savalas snarls, "Am I a fool? Do you think I talk just to hear my head rattle?" In this sweeps extravaganza, such questions are invariably -and giddily- rhetorical...
While this year's team means business on the field, they manage to fool around off it. Before the Dartmouth game, the team had a "cripple breakfast party", to which the players came dressed in bandages. Tricia Welch showed up with her entire head bandaged, which greatly impeded her ability to eat the scrambled eggs, while Julie Brynteson arrived with two compression pads positioned so that the laughter led to no end. Kerry Bryan arrived with a blond, curly wig and a sweatshirt that had "Coach Bob" written on the front and Stefi Baum donned a black wig and painted...