Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SAME READER who inwardly cheers when the CIA agent confesses at the White House (just in the nick of time) and is rewarded with the "large, white toothy smile" lighting the black president's face feels disappointed and foolish when the actual source of the conspiracy is revealed. Although Mayer jeers at immorality, he ultimately shifts the blame from us, perhaps in pursuit of, perhaps as a jab against happy endings. The conspiratorial evil is not the evil of earthlings. Instead Pxyzsyzygy, that impish elf from the Fifth Dimension, manipulates us and warps our innate goodness...
...This is not to say that the acting is good; some of it is terrible. But by far the best thing about this musical is Stephen Sondheim's marvelously sophisticated and tuneful score, and to stage a production which fails to do justice to it is more than foolish. It is a dramatic crime...
...would be foolish to have all those people out there at 4 a.m. for a very few jobs," Lawrence E. Maguire '58, director of student employment, said yesterday. Maguire added that his office has not worked out the final details of this year's lottery, but they are "looking for the most equitable way" to conduct...
...Foolish in the Morning...
...Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy type of musicals are nauseating. You have probably seen those 40-year-old Hollywood bombs on television, with their foolish plots, childish dialogue and overdose of song and dance, tap-tap-tap. They always feature a pretty (though never sexy) heroine and her smiling, good-natured boyfriend caught in some "terrible...