Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic as one of the late Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl ballads, is a melancholy portrait of a misanthropic, malcontented wanderer "who passionately hates his life and likewise fears his death." The album's title song, John Wesley Harding (who "was never known to make a foolish move") is an oldtime saga about a kind of Nietzschean super dream...
...students in particular have gone pretty far out on one side of this," said Reischauer. "But we've got to have a sensible Asian policy. We're saying that America does have a role in Asia, and let's not blow our tops and do something foolish...
...presidential aspirations, Reagan predictably disavowed any personal desire ("Anyone would have to be out of his skull to want to be President"), but refused to make a "Sherman statement" and quoted Dwight Eisenhower as saying that "it was a foolish statement, and Sherman shouldn't have made it." Reagan's reluctance to opt out was justified by a yet-to-be-released poll taken by the liberal Republican Ripon Society, which finds him, along with Richard Nixon, standing "the nearest step away from the 1968 Republican nomination," with George Romney and Nelson Rockefeller far to the rear...
...From foolish permissiveness to foolish repressiveness, too many American middle-class parents careen downward from the joys of birth to the final whimper, "What did we do wrong?" The hard answer is that failed parents tend to be failed people who use children for their own emotional hang-ups. They never stop, look or listen to the kids; they never grasp that parenthood is a full-time job, perhaps the most important job in a chronically changing America. They never see the challenge: teaching a child integrity-the self-respect that makes for strong, kind men and women...
During President Sukarno's konfrontasi with Malaysia, the Indonesian army equipped, trained and sheltered guerrillas to harass the Malaysians along the two countries' common border on the island of Borneo. Now the move has boomeranged. Once Sukarno's successor, General Suharto, had ended the foolish quarrel with Malaysia, the guerrillas were left on their own in the jungles of Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo. Peking, which sees the island's large Chinese population as the advance phalanx for an ultimate Communist takeover, has been exhorting the mostly Chinese guerrillas not only to continue to offer...