Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...libretto, by Italy's Carlo Goldoni, is a typical 18th century spoof of intriguing lovers and amateur scientists, involving a fat and foolish old father who will not let his two daughters marry suitors he disapproves of. When the old man peers through a telescope at the moon and thinks he spots a bevy of handsomely configured nymphs cavorting about in the near nude, one of his prospective sons-in-law feeds him a magic elixir that, he is told, will transport him to the wonderful moon world. Convinced, when he comes to, that he really...
...Government went on classifying "anything that might possibly aid an enemy"-a program that discouraged "top scientific men who might otherwise have come to our country." Concluded Brattain: "I feel very strongly that most restrictions done in the name of national security turn out to be foolish . . . Don't kill the baby to protect it from the kidnapers...
...class lines are hardening. In fact it suggests just the opposite-a continually changing social scene. At one point Packard himself concedes that the "American populace [is] arranged along a continuum [with] a series of bulges and contractions." Much of what Packard describes as status seeking is indeed foolish, and some of it may be evil; but much of it is also the result of man's human status, and the product of a free and mobile society. In a closed society where "everyone knows his place," people need not and often cannot strive for status; it is given...
Endurance, by Alfred Lansing, Shackleton's foolish-heroic Antarctic expedition re-created in well-modulated prose...
Endurance, by Alfred Lansing. Shackleton's foolish-heroic Antarctic expedition re-created in well-modulated prose...