Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Working Farm. To Bombay Supplies Minister, Dinkerrao Desai, the slaughter and the filthy, foolish dairy methods are horrifying. For the past two years he has directed the building of a huge modern dairy farm on the outskirts of Bombay. Just north of the city limits, Desai bought 3,500 acres of palm-covered hills at a place called Aarey (rhymes with starry). There, he has built seven self-sufficient dairy-farm units with airy, concrete stables, with scrubbed floors, neat feed bins and washing ponds filled with clear water. Hills have been leveled for grazing lands. The units now have...
...Your article on [Hollywood Censor] Joseph Breen's proposed cuts of The Bicycle Thief [TIME, March 13] disgusted me ... Such foolish and careless censorship of movies, one of our most important mediums of information, is dangerous...
Skirts were tighter and shorter, as much as 16 in. from the ground. Padded hips were out; gone, too, were the waist corsets and many of the other foolish furbelows which had come in with the New Look. In some collections, like Balmain's, there was a nostalgic look of the '20s. The trend was to more simplicity. The object, said one designer, was "not to astonish but to please...
...great many people are pleased with "My Foolish Heart." Samuel Goldwyn, the producer, is happy: despite adverse reviews, this, his latest product, is making a heap of money. The Academy Award nominating board is happy: the movie's heroine, Susan Hayward, has been nominated for the best actress of the year. The manager of the Astor Theater is happy: not only is his theater well-filled even on afternoons, but his floor is so well-washed with tears that it must need only a dry mop at the end of the day. And, of course, the audience this film...
...slickness with which they are blended, it all comes to naught when the characters themselves are lacking in the spark of life, the nobility of real beings. Sentiment, properly used in the films like "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" and "The Yearling," can be a handsome thing. In "My Foolish Heart" it has been put to ignoble...