Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Powell was given a service with all the trimmings. After reading the parable of the rich fool, Wheat followed up with a nursery rhyme, The Crooked Man. Wheat reviewed Powell's career: twice voted the state's outstanding legislator, named Man of the Year by veterans' groups. He recalled how Powell's secretary, affectionately known as "Little Bit," accompanied the old pol on his last trip and tried, unsuccessfully, to spirit away the shoeboxes before authorities discovered them. Wheat wound up with a favorite Powell quote:"There's only one thing worse than a defeated...
...first was "to fool around and hope you have a good time." The second was to win the Ivy League championship and the third was to win the National championship...
...voice sounds like an air-raid siren with adenoids. The face, a passably good copy of a pickle, is caught between a snarl and a smile, the snarl usually winning out. "You are not talking with just anyone's fool," she snorts indignantly. "I am a high school graduate." Who could doubt that Ernestine, the world's most famous telephone operator, has her diploma-or that Lily Tomlin, her creator, is the funniest, most inventive comedienne to come along since Elaine...
Until someone can come up with a constructive way of disarming the underworld as well as law-abiding citizens, I will continue to utilize my right to bear arms. And God help the fool who breaks into my home...
...Ralph, a scruffy, loud-mouthed director of experimental plays who sneers at the "tight-assed matrons" in suburbia who patronize the theater. He talks a lot about nudity on stage, about the need for the theater to deal with subjects like dope, and he is made to look the fool. If Gershe's idea of honesty is Butterflies Are Free, it is Ralph who deserves our support...