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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have played the fool," he would say when all his money was gone, "but here is my resource." Then he would hold up a pencil-and everyone in the room would know that with that and a box of colors Tom Rowlandson could earn whatever money he needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Loving Lampoons | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

...Radcliffe is probably able to carry off substantial revision and relaxation of the rules," Evett stated. But a girl given freedom is also given responsibility, he added, "the responsibility not to make a fool of herself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Head Residents Differ Over Curfews | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

...narrative he wrote captures his era as bawdily and well as do Hogarth's engravings. But in any good memoir it is the man, not the times, whose flavor dominates. Hickey, neither as deep as Boswell nor as intense as Casanova, still was something other than a fool with a strong constitution and a good memory. He had no malice and little self-deception, much humor and courage. While Portuguese sailors caught in a hurricane might, as he reported with British condescension, abandon their sails and flock round their priest, he himself had the perseverance that built an empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rosebuds & Blasted Bet | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

...Just Sit By Me." Although McCormack is extraordinarily thin-skinned himself, he can and does dish it out with one of the House's roughest tongues. Once, in the middle of a formal debate, he bluntly called Representative Earl Wilson of Indiana a "damned fool," and was required to retract his words. Again, in a 1953 argument with Michigan's acidulous Republican Representative Clare Hoffman, McCormack delivered an insult that is still recalled whenever Congressmen trade stories. "I would defend the Gentleman," he said, in a mockery of the politest parliamentary style, "because I have a minimum high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Mr. Speaker | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

What to do? In desperation, Mrs. Stone consults an aristocratic procuress, a ludicrous old mascaraed barracuda who calls herself La Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales (Lotte Lenya). The lady provides Mrs. Stone with a handsome young escort called Paolo (Warren Beatty), who has big shoulders and a small title. No fool like an old fool. She falls absurdly in love with the boy, belabors him with costly presents and senescent lust. In the end, of course, he gets tired of it all and runs off with a Hollywood cinemama who offers him more fun, and more money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Acting Their Age | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

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