Word: foolishnesses
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...protagonist's love--are each immured in a prison of words. Marchbanks, an intruder into Morell's apparently idyllic Victorian home, attacks the vacuity of the parson's Christian Socialist platitudes; but his own endless flights of romanticism are no better. Both forms of verbiage are equally foolish--and equally valid. Neither is, in Auden's words, "a way of happening," let alone an incitement to change...
...Senators shot troubled and challenging questions at Kirbo. Why were phone calls to the Carter headquarters not returned? Why the foolish Playboy interview? Why not put some political heavyweights on the Carter plane? Along with the questions came suggestions. The candidate should spend less time at minor-league stops. He should take on a tougher defense posture. Then the Kirbo trouble squad met with a larger group of Congressmen and the next day visited with delegations from four crucial states: Michigan, Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania...
...contest, the Red Sox were trailing 12-5 with two out in the bottom of the ninth. The handful of stragglers who had been wise enough (foolish enough?) to remain saw the Sox score eight runs and pull out a miraculous 13-12 victory...
Some versions of hospitality from fellow wayfarers annoyed me. I rated special attention as a solitary woman, and older, perhaps more worldly-wise, members of my own sex tsked at me warningly or smiled enigmatically (An unsatisfactory verbal rendering might be, "Foolish urchin, she'll get what's coming to her, like it or not."), while men couldn't get it through their heads that I wasn't beaming a silent plea for companionship. Slips of paper scrawled with undecipherable names of meaningless splotches on the globe flutter out of my wallet now and then...
...omni-purpose politician's grin. At the middle of the arc, Al's smile turns into a squarely set, unrehearsed-looking deadpan, suitable for framing and hanging in a standup comics' Hall of Fame. And at the bottom of the arc, there's a ferocious scowl, reserved for anyone foolish enough to disrupt the proceedings of the honorable City Council...