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Word: foolish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disaster for American education. A liberal school's administration and faculty, in a dramatic gesture given worldwide attention, bowed to the unreasonable demands of an armed minority led by a demagogue who threatened leading administrators and faculty members over a university-owned radio station and backed by a foolish mob of guilt-ridden, self-flagellating whites finding "institutionalized racism" behind every bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 16, 1969 | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...police must have relished the opportunity bash in the heads of all the "rich, commie-faggot" Harvard boys they have hated and lusted after in frustration all these years. How obvious that their unleashed violence and anger would only precipitate unprecedented disruption and destruction of the University. How incredibly foolish of you to cause this to happen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CALLS FOR RESIGNATION | 5/7/1969 | See Source »

Twice as many police as demonstrators must indeed be a record. Was University Hall or the aplomb of the deans so precious? Was Harvard in fact so foolish as to play not just into the hands of the tiny radical student left but those as well of the Cambridge and other police who, as you know, relish an opportunity to crack Harvard heads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POWER OVER SENSE | 5/7/1969 | See Source »

...from Gavin Maxwell's witty, eccentric book, it does manage to convey that peculiar love for a pet that can amount to an obsession. In addition, it provides the accepting child viewer with the prime requisites for motion pictures: 1) a star with fur, 2) adults who look foolish (as Merrill does when he tries, by flapping his arms, to teach a gosling to fly), and 3) no love scenes except those between otter and otter. The result is little otters, making Ring of Bright Water the best sex-education film ever to get a G rating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gold in the Straw | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...same ethic makes the attack on University rental policies seem foolish to Calkins. The University cannot pragmatically afford to take losses on the apartment buildings it owns, he says. As a practical necessity and as a preventative against federal influence, the University needs to be self-supporting...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: The Calkins Saga -- A Second Chapter | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

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