Word: moone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, it must take a powerful moon and the sunshine of Sunny Italy to rush the March of Time so that children conceived in the first week of August may be born in March. Is Mussolini responsible for that change also? HUGH H. HOFFMAN...
...Moon's No Fool—Thomas Matthews—Random House...
...environment of pure invention, heroes are twice as heroic. villains twice as villainous and life's follies doubly absurd. Toward the petard of such celebrated masters of adult make-believe as Jonathan Swift and Samuel Butler. Thomas Stanley Matthews has hoisted himself with a nightmare called The Moon's No Fool...
...extraordinary piece of writing, The Moon's No Fool is a bold, imaginative flight, but one that seems headed in all directions at once. No reader can be sure his analysis of Mr. Matthews' meaning is the right one, that Mr. Matthews himself was always certain how his myth-sermon would...
Thereupon The Moon's No Fool leaves its practical moorings as Ben experiences nightmarish visions where friends are all enemies; where the Queen is successively a prostitute, a torch-singer, a dancing partner, a captive; where his fashionable companions turn into policemen and thugs who are chasing him everywhere; where his beloved changes her being whenever he tries to embrace her. Thereupon, too, The Moon's No Fool takes on its elusive moral tone as Author Matthews suggests the evil consequences and addled wits that follow from self-deception and acceptance of worldly standards. Ben is saved from...