Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than 50, there seems a good lesson in the activities of Pirandello. Why shouldn't a man keep his creative vitality until he reaches that period in which ihe can look at life with amused toler- ance, in which he is capable of interpreting life as a gay, mad, foolish show through which he has passed? Surely the wisest satire must be written by the old. The young can puncture bubbles; but only the man who has lived widely can destroy mountains...
...Song and Dance man", in the title role of which he is appearing at the Selwyn Theatre. "It costs money to operate in the show business, and you've got to give the public what it wants. If the public expects one thing from me, I'd be foolish to experiment with another. I am ready to turn to something new, however, any time I am convinced it will be profitable...
...higher opinion of these degenerate moderns than most of his remarks would indicate. At the end of his address he speaks of "having faith in youth", which sounds somewhat more friendly to the much maligned "younger generation." As for the great Victorians whom he praises so highly, it is foolish either to malign them promiscuously or to laud them to the skies. Since they were adjusted to a very different type of society, they would perhaps have been even less successful than the moderns in dealing with the problems of a complex and unstable world. The modern world may, given...
...three-day session nothing of importance occurred, except the defeat of a vote of censure on the Government's domestic policy, moved by Ramsey MacDonald, the Laborite Leader of the Opposition, by 285 to 190 votes. Subsequently Mr. Lloyd George condemned the proposed dissolution as " ill-considered, precipitate, foolish." " Can lobsters, crayfish and crabs," he demanded in referring to the results of the Imperial Conference (TIME, Nov. 19), "bind the Empire by trade? It is a tinker's policy. The Government is going to the country with a tin can tied to its tail...
...caught up after the war. The spectacle of nearly two million unemployed workers on her streets is a powerful call to reshape her foreign policy on lines to put it at the lowest of a truer economic expedience. In a word the Government has realized that it is foolish as well as immoral to rob a bankrupt of his tools. It is mortifying to watch another continue that crippling process too, for the effect of it all is not limited to preventing the payment of the debt--it reacts fatally on all creditors. At the moment, England is hardest...