Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exasperating, "The Empire Builders" is a fascinating drama in the Absurd tradition: which means that it mingles farce and tragedy, fantasy and reality, in a dramaturgic jumble; that its people are fools, doomed to play clown roles in the face of impending disaster; that it is myterious, mystifying, enignatic, foolish, funny--all at the same time...
...peace"-though Russia of late has shown no inclination whatever to insert the key in the lock. Exactly what inducements Nixon might offer at the bargaining table are unstated. It could hardly be otherwise. Even if the status of the war next year could be predicted, it would be foolish, his aides point out, to get locked into a bargaining position now. "I don't have all the answers," Nixon told a breakfast reception in Oshkosh. "But I do know the questions, and I do know it is possible to do a better job than we have...
...that Bradesku was entitled to compensation. The Church of God promises to appeal the verdict as far as necessary, and it would seem likely that its constitutional arguments would get a warmer reception in higher courts. But the case has been so unusual so far that it would be foolish for anyone to predict the outcome...
...would be foolish not to recognize that many students--perhaps the majority at Harvard--are fairly content with the system as it operates. A large number not only intend to go on to graduate school, but see the College as a prep school for the University. This sort of student is almost ideally suited to the education Harvard is able to give...
...deep personalization of the event. And his success as a journalist can be attributed to his talent as a novelist. As he writes of himself: . . . he was a novelist and so in need of studying every last lineament of the fine, the noble, the frantic, and the foolish in others and in himself. Such egotism being two-headed, thrusting itself forward the better to study itself, finds itself therefore at home in a house of mirrors, since it has habits, even the talent to regard itself. Once history inhabits a crazy house, egotism may be the last tool left...