Word: fool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oddest, features of the play is the part of Thersites, who, largely detached from the action, observes and comments on the events about him. He combines the functions of the Shakespearian "fool" with the chorus of a Greek drama, and his bitter words seem to be the theme of the play "still wars and lechery--nothing else holds fashion." Albert Marre has avoided the ranting style he used in the previous performance, and speaks with just about the proper degree of bitter cynicism...
This state of affairs has not embittered him. "Professional swimmers are a bunch of fools," he says; and as far as his professional swimmin gis concerned, he does not expect to be treated like anything but a fool. Four years of steady competition has given him a philosophy: "The biggest thrill in pro swimming is when you get the prize money right in your hand...
...July 1906, Walter Sherman Gifford, then 21 and two years out of Harvard, wrote his father the glad news of his promotion to assistant secretary & treasurer of Western Electric Co. Salary: $24 a week. Snapped the elder Gifford, a fiercely independent Yankee lumberman: "Any damn fool can make a success in a corporation...
...fact-minded Walter Gifford never placed any reliance on fool's luck. He probed into Western Electric's rule-of-thumb business methods, impressed his bosses by outlining new accounting and manufacturing ideas on easily understood charts. When American Telephone & Telegraph Co., owner of Western Electric, wanted to expand in 1908, President Theodore N. Vail put Gifford in charge of evaluating the companies which were later incorporated into the Bell System. For his crack job, Gifford was made chief statistician of A.T. & T. in 1911 at $7,000 a year. After that he rose through the company with...