Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Martin Kilson should pause to consider the impact of his letters a bit more before reaching for his pen, for he has not only made a fool of himself but also done a great disservice to a large part of the University's student body...
...Glory is accurate but not pedantic, entertaining but not slick. Like Woody's songs, Bound For Glory is deceptively simple; the surface simplicity serves only to mask the care and skill involved in its production. Besides, as Pete Seeger said in his forward to the book, "Any damn fool can get complicated...
...each of his protagonists, an unwanted pregnancy and consequent flirtation with abortion, not to mention such urban delights as an attempted mugging, sudden death in the indifferent streets and a racist cab driver (Irwin Corey, working hard) whom Gardner tries desperately to make us see as a wise fool, the author has his work cut out for him. The smell of damp garbage never quite leaves this enterprise...
...Poor Stony-suffering from a new version of that old dramatic ailment, the identity crisis-dreams of falling in love with a sensuous plant, which at least has roots. Wintermouth finds and loses the cure for cancer. He is instantaneously transformed from the world's hero into its fool for that carelessness, and he ends up with Hitler's love letters to Eva Braun, which he finds buried in the sand. Still, he says-in what seems to be Guare's message as well-"the world needs heroes, or at least people who dream beyond themselves...
Rees left behind in northern California a bride of eight months named Renee, who was baffled by his sudden turn to crime. She described him as a dependable, gentle sort who likes to "putter around the house and fool with plants." Said she: "I felt we had everything going for us. He never really complained about lack of money. I still cannot understand...