Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word 'escape' too much in criticism today" was another of Mr. Frost's assertions. "We always seem to be trying to get away from something, and we are always motivated by the fear of not being original, or the fear of seeming foolish; to my mind there is nothing quite so enjoyable as two people winking over something foolish they have said. Instead of all this escaping and negative existence there should be more pursuit--active pursuit of things which are worthwhile...
...that the President has begun on his own authority relief projects to reclaim land, and these projects could be completed only with additional funds. President Roosevelt had in effect committed the government to large expenditures without so much as consulting Congress. He had, incidentally, committed it to the foolish policy of reclaiming farm land at the same time it is retiring other land from cultivation...
...resent having to share it with Congress. It is hard to interpret otherwise his declaration that seed-bill loans made by him require no additional revenues, but loans made by Congress must be backed up by new taxes. As long as we have a lily-livered Senate and a foolish, and autocratic President neither the liberties of Congress nor of the American people itself can be safe...
...your reports, the Crimson is overlooking the fact that the assignment of topics should be only the means to an end, not an end in itself. English A is not a course in the organization of facts, but in the writing of good English. No one would be so foolish as to deny that there is no connection between straight thinking and clarity of style, but emphasis upon ideas without an adequate medium for their expression is useless. The achievement of such a medium is the goal toward which the work of English A is directed...
...world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American . . . bent only on amassing a fortune, and putting his fortune only to the basest uses-whether these uses be to speculate in stocks and wreck railroads himself, or to allow his son to lead a life of foolish and expensive idleness and gross debauchery, or to purchase some scoundrel of high social position, foreign or native, for his daughter...