Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lives somewhere in the happy absences of Georgia's vast Okefenokee swamp, with his friends. Among them: Albert, a raffish alligator who smokes cigars, courts a skunk with a French accent, and describes himself as "handsome, brilliant and modest to a fare-thee-well"; Howland Owl, a foolish old bird who crosses a "gee-ranium" plant with a yew tree, hoping to get a "yew-ranium" bush for an atom bomb; the Deacon, a muskrat so elegantly educated that he speaks mostly in Old English script...
...theater-wise and drama-foolish. Necessarily lacking the fullness of the book, it much less excusably lacks the bite. The second act is an overlong flashback that reduces Charles's whole past to a magazine-fiction romance without appreciably illuminating the present. The third act is just an exercise in suspense over whether Charles will be made vice president...
...Madison, state G.O.P. leader. Taft himself will make a courthouse-steps campaign in Wisconsin, flanked by Wisconsin's own Senator Joe McCarthy. Wisconsin is as ticklish a problem for Ike as Oregon is for Taft. Reports TIME'S correspondent in Madison: "Some Republicans say Eisenhower would be foolish to make a late entry and risk a bad showing, but a dramatic late entry by Eisenhower might counteract all the work done up to that time by Taft supporters...
...conduct was unethical. One committee after another studied the charge, called Dr. Ivy in for consultation. Many of Ivy's most admiring colleagues shook their heads sadly over his action. "Ivy's really stuck his neck way out," they said, or, "He's courageous but foolish...
...first edition in 1792, these weather predictions have been the Almanac's prime attraction. But this year saw an innovation--the signs of the zodiac and the "Man of the Signs" were introduced. The Almanac thoughtfully added, however, that the "Man" is highly regarded "only by astrologers and the foolish...