Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...done by Kissinger's wife Nancy and his two teen-age children. On the final day of the visit, the entire party flew to the ancient garden city of Suchow, 600 miles south of Peking, where Kissinger was taken to a spot named, significantly, "the Garden of Foolish Politicians...
...husband died not too long after being gassed in World War I, and Lady spent the rest of her days being a rich, eccentric widow. Late in her life she won the New England regional "forlorn cry" award, popular-novel division: "Oh, I am a vain and foolish woman. Yes, foolish. I have wanted the esteem of the world, and why? Tell me, for what...
...never said a foolish thing...
...that make them exciting if we look beyond the thin veneer of wealth and poise. "Babylon Revisited" is an elegant, sophisticated treatment of an expatriate's loneliness in Paris. His wealth is integral to the plot, not obtrusive. The story is also structured meticulously, interweaving flashbacks to younger, more foolish days and ending in an indefinite way that reinforces the story's mood...
...laudatory tome on the U.S. jury system; of an apparent heart attack; at home in Chicago. An ardent civil libertarian, Kalven frequently argued First Amendment cases, including Entertainer Lenny Bruce's 1963 obscenity appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court; contemptuous of censorship, he regarded obscenity laws as "foolish and trivial." A projected major work on legal theories underlying freedom of speech was half completed when he was stricken...