Word: foolishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long been one of the foibles of Anglo-Saxon races to Characterize the Latins as foolish, sentimental people, and to consider themselves as particularly rational and practical; and this delusion is still widely popular. Nothing, of course, could be further from the truth. It is the Latin who looks at the realities of life, and who, arguing like Machiavelli and Mussolini, from what man is, decide what government must be. It is the Anglo-Saxon who commences with an abstraction, an ideal conception of what ought to be, and finally shapes his state upon opportunity, according to theory...
...wear their sins openly. But in this case the rain washes everyone clean. The minister who plans to leave with the woman he loves?a wife who has fled ashore from the yacht of her wastrel millionaire husband?finally sends her back to the debauchee. It seems a foolish thing to do?perhaps he was touched by the heat. But the picture is made consistently interesting through good direction, through good acting by Percy Marmont, Leatrice Joy, Adolph Menjou and particularly Laska Winter as a half-caste girl, and through a smashing wreck at sea which solves the triangular situation...
...solemn, strong, sober; as a leader he is cool, discreet, able. In politics he is a staunch Unionist, and an unbending Imperialist, has "no foolish fastidiousness about democratic principles." As an orator he is a failure, but as a man of action he is "a national asset." Two un-Irish features stand out in his physiognomy and character; he has an egg-shaped head with eyes deep set and far apart; he is "an Irishman without a sense of humor...
After those four years, any comment on the performance of the Chauve-Souris seems quite superfluous. Better typewriters than ours have rattled off their choicest superlatives in praise of the rotund personality of Balieff and the magnificently foolish or beautiful performance of his company. The fragments which have made up the repertory of Balieff's Chauve-Souris are by now the common property of all America. The drollery of the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers; the exquisite, breathless beauty of the porcelain pantomines; the gorgeous foolishment of "The Sudden Death of a Horse; or the "Greatness of the Russian Soul...
Mingling of the Beautiful and Foolish...