Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...celebration and civic pride. Time for whimsy and WE'RE NO.l!, for good cheer and bad bets. It is a time warp, where the young dream of growing up and the old remember youth, and in the delirious identification with a winning football team, neither fantasy nor reminiscence seems foolish. The game becomes a bond strong enough to unite, however temporarily, the disparate elements of an urban society. In Dallas and in Denver, where football is a passion, not a fancy, the trip to the Super Bowl is a municipal journey...
...total supply and demand in the economy; policymakers also need to develop programs for specific trouble spots. Though Miller was quickly criticized by Senate Banking Chairman William Proxmire for lacking sufficient banking experience to run the nation's money supply, those who know Miller say the charges are foolish. Says New York Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn, who knows Miller well: "I think that he knows more about finance than most bankers I know. He has run a very big company, and run it exceedingly well. He does not get impressed by all this theoretical academic stuff...
...presumably because he thought the FBI should handle the case. At one point he dispatched aides to the Washington Post to try to stop that paper from publishing an editorial supporting such a blue-ribbon panel. The mission was unsuccessful. He thought many requests made by the commission were foolish (one he labeled "poppycock"). But he dispatched agents to fulfill them. Hoover's personality, including his most odious and eccentric characteristics, comes through vividly in the files. He told aides that President Johnson wanted all leads pursued vigorously "without complete regard for technicalities." and he had a fetish about...
...only a paunch subalterns for the real thing, and that the head honcho would make his annual appearance down the chimney on Christmas Eve. (I also never believed than an amazingly fat man could squeen down ours and countless other chimneys in the course of a few hours. Foolish...
...unconcerned, because he did not believe that homosexuals were "inferior," he has been unable to speak to me about my homosexuality in the four months since I told him. Of my siblings, only my 15-year-old sister, apparently too young to be burdened with society's foolish conceptions of masculinity and prejudices about sexuality, was able to speak to me without great awkwardness. Only she shared any gut feeling of injustice concerning society's treatment of gay people. The rest of my family treated my homosexuality as an imposition upon them and their phony peace. I am acceptable only...