Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Herbert J. Rogers 2L a spokesman for the group, Miss Albright's picture on the cover of Newsweek's "Campus '65" issue reminded him of the need to "dedicate yourself to something totally foolish." He and some friends responded to this "visceral reaction" by phoning Miss Albright, a drama major. "We're inviting her because she's there," Rogers explained...
...where the timid fear to tread, following the company's slogan-"Find a need, and fill it." Optimism is the cornerstone of the Kaiser philosophy, and Edgar argues with folksy persuasion that the world's needs are bound to rise so fast that he would be foolish not to try to meet them...
...self-conscious? Why couldnt they play it straight? Light opera is supposed to be foolish--the audience will discover that on its own. The characters aren't supposed to be realistic. But they have to appear to think they are. A deadpan is much funnier than a smirk...
...flagrant offense to the American sense of fair play. Your attempt at covering up your total domination of Hanoi's foreign policy by ordering her to mold this policy around the Soviet Union's call for peaceful co-existence fools no one, and you cannot imagine how foolish you look in this attempt...
...from Nazca into Cuzco, from Puno down the rugged eastern slope of the Andes into the southern montana. Estimated cost: $400 million. Like Juscelino Kubitschek's Brasilia, the project will be years justifying itself. "But you know," ventures one Peruvian, "in a hundred years we might look awfully foolish...