Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indeed you can't. They may fool everybody by seeing that this movie is a preposterously shallow mishandling of some perfectly real problems. It is also a characteristic Hollywood job of turning worthwhile material into trash and presenting it so stylishly that at times it looks good. The dialogue, an affected, pseudo-sophisticated patter, is spoken with such expert variety of inflection that it sounds real, and even intelligent...
...courses into a meaningful pattern, can make the most of his opportunity to study at the nation's number one college." The average undergraduate, not quite an honors candidate, is happy for four years without tutorial, without advice, without plan or overall concept--happy, but possibly in a fool's paradise...
Nobody but Americans. From Calcutta to Rangoon they had to stop at every good-sized rice paddy-George had picked up "Delhi belly." In Hanoi, a Frenchman told them not to bother about showing their passports, everybody knew "nobody but Americans would do a damn fool thing like this." They sat out a typhoon in Hong Kong, a binge and hangover at Amoy. Flying in loose formation, they worked out a bit of dialogue to pass the time on their long hops. Cliff: "We're lost, but we're making good time." George: "We're broke...
...state of happiness becomes in actuality a totalitarian government ruling in the most autocratic manner. It may be that we are abetting Red propaganda every time we use the term "Communist." . . . A person in our country who favors Russia and its ideology must be either a knave or a fool, and the Communists themselves must have their dupes and stooges as well as their helpless victims. Let's aid the cause of democracy in the U.S. and abroad by developing an authentic, descriptive word...
...like so many American fictioneers, from the major experience of the age. And while not so witty or brash or technically, ambidextrous as some of the American advance guardists, the British don't trifle with literary fads; they are in too deep a mess to be able to fool with that sort of thing, and they know...