Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Earl's record at Eton, Oxford and in the Royal Navy, observed complacently that "the blood of the Stuarts is to be found in both." But at week's end, Buckingham Palace remained majestically mum. The Earl's only comment: "It's all foolish...
Sofia Rilke was annoyed. Had not the daughter of an Imperial Councillor, the wife of the Inspector of the Bohemian Northern Railway, a right to expect that her prayers for a daughter would be graciously granted? Yet here it was, a boy after all. In a foolish pet, Sofia decided to raise her son as a daughter, anyway. She put up his hair in braids, kept him in pretty frocks and dainty underwear, set him to playing with dolls and little girls, and called him "Sophie...
...year-old bandleader, composer and arranger who had moved onto the list of the nation's top ten bestsellers with three of his records at once. All tricked out with sobbing, throbbing violins and choruses of female voices, I Wanna Be Loved, Bewitched and My Foolish Heart were proving once again that the U.S. still likes nothing better than the big, lush arrangements of its popular tunes...
...shows, universities and legislatures are tending to act against whole faculties at once. Loyalty oaths and group-prohibitions have multiplied since last year. Again it is liberals rather than Communists who are most often injured by such processes. Oaths do not cramp real Communists, who would not be so foolish as to admit their party allegiances. Nor are oaths necessary as evidence later on against subversives, since there are already more than enough laws under which such people can be prosecuted. But loyalty tests do frighten men who might have belonged to some group classified as subversive, and even...
When I say this is an optimistic book, to friendly governments in the East, I do not mean that Harsch looks forward even in the remote future. He carefully points out that "the men who have seized power in eastern Europe are not so foolish as to bring only evil to those they have captured. If we insist on seeing only that one evil side of the communist governments behind the iron curtain we are only deluding ourselves. and we might quite possibly delude ourselves disastrously...