Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...witty, partisan study of Charles II, who, often dismissed as a libertine and a fool, is here assessed as "the sanest and most civilized of monarchs." Daughters and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford. An often touching, entertaining account of the famed Mitford sisters, who loved too unwisely and too well, both in personal and political affairs...
...14th century melodies orchestrated by Composer Claude Arrieu, Comedy combined humor, poetry, drama and sex in lurid mixture. Some of the sequences were unabashedly bawdy: an aged fool heaves over a medieval chamber pot, is lured into bed by a seductive young thing who promptly decamps with the old man's clothes and money. Some were queasily off-color: a visiting sultan caresses a "lovely young boy" only to discover a female under the fabric. One of the most famous of the tales had to do with the scholar who revenged himself on the lady who deceived...
...abhors the color of yellow, yet she keeps training in and out carrying a yellow rose. After her marriage, reference is made to her wedding ring, yet she wears some. When Toby says, "Let's have a catch it is ridiculous for Andrew to comment, "By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast," unless they have sung a catch. As the disguided Viola, Katharine Hepburn is properly masculine and looks surprisingly young; but her voice-ay, there's the rub. Her delivery is jarring, mechanical, and unintelligent; both she and the director fall even to perceive that the rhythm...
...that feels that the times are out of joint? He does not renounce the world or wallow in self-pity. He is the poet of this-worldliness; he celebrates love, food, drink, music, friendship, conversation, and the changing, changeless beauties of Nature. Though life is time's fool, Shakespeare posits the ideal of the mature man ("Ripeness is all") who distills his experiences into common sense and uncommon wisdom...
...behavior that caused Charles to be misunderstood by many of his contemporaries and a sizable share of his biographers. His mistresses, whom he kept in oriental profusion, thought that they governed him, and Parliament agreed. Political adversaries and friends alike thought him a libertine, which he was, and a fool, which he was not. His sober adviser, Lord Halifax, grumbled that "the wit of a gentleman and that of a crowned head ought to be two different things...