Word: phooey
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...Achhh. I've known Izzy for 30 years," a disenchanted fellow-traveler whispered to me while Stone was talking in Kirkland House, "The guy follows Moscow's party line right down to the commas." Phooey. Stone has as much disdain for Communists as he has for Democrats or Republicans. He's about as eager as a local ladies auxiliary for the violent overthrow of the government...
...most art experts, her Italian contemporaries pale beside her earlier purchases. Peggy does not agree. "People in 20 years will be saying the same things about the new people as they were about Pollock back then," she says. Pop? "This whaddayacallit, phooey," she says, but Jasper Johns...
...last two Glass stories in hardcover at $4, both having appeared in The New Yorker, in 1955 and 1959 respectively. Outside the campus, there are signs that crabbed age is becoming short-tempered about the cutups in the Salinger kindergarten. London's New Statesman has muttered about "Zenny & Phooey." and Critic Mary McCarthy has brought her severe forensic intelligence to bear on Salinger and files a contemptuous brief which indicts him for attempting to feed the young the poisoned pap of a false religiosity...
...loved every word of it. I was born in Boston. I was raised in Boston. Like so many others, I got married and ran to suburbia. Well, I've had it. I am still married, but I'm back in Boston. Hooray for the city, and phooey to suburbia...
...woman said of the pickets that "each and every one of them is aiding and abetting the cause of international communism." Another woman knocked one of the mimeographed statements out of the hands of a startled picket, and muttered angrily, "Is that the Red stuff? Phooey...