Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...These qualities constitute a way of life which of course does not make wise men from foolish, or good men from wicked, but which has beauty and which seems singularly suited to man's estate on earth...
...time, he thinks, than the world has. He is young enough to feel that his elders are timid, and mature enough to know that the present uneasy peace cannot last. And he is being heard. He disregards cynics. He thinks of himself as a practical realist and considers optimism foolish but hope necessary. "If this hope is naive," he says, "then it is naive to hope...
Wright has made a habit of confounding engineers with buildings which looked plain foolish and turned out to be foolproof. He scorns the cold functionalism of most modern architecture. What makes him a revered revolutionary at 78 is his insistence that buildings are not just "machines for living...
...publicizing the case and raised a fund to make restitution to the women concerned. I had to write an editorial defining the CRIMSON's stand on this gesture of the alumni group. The theme of the editorial was "a plague on both your houses:" Harvard had followed a foolish and niggardly policy, but the alumni should have had better taste than to wash dirty linen in public. Let Harvard pay decent wages, let the too-easily-excited alumni calm down, and let's all forget about the affair. By taking this stand, was the CRIMSON playing a constructive role...
Whitehead once defined the ideal university professor as "an ignorant man thinking." He possessed the great teacher's greatest gift: nobody ever asked him a foolish question. His philosophy students at Harvard gladly took the calculated risk that Professor Whitehead had demanded-honors or a flunk; no "gentleman...