Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fest punctuates his chronological drama with a kind of intermission-"interpolations," he calls them-in which he examines such historical topics as the "great dread" that afflicted Germans during the chaotic Weimar era. Hitler's foolish and criminal rush into war ("War is life," he said), and the Führer's relationship to the forces of German history. The author rejects the line of thought that explains Hitler by tracing the Führer's philosophical antecedents back through centuries of Teutonic mysticism and blood-dimmed sense of divine mission. He also rejects the simple-minded...
...organization that can not get a workable parking plan together is not one to plan a whole academic-tourist complex. A plan for shuttlebuses from the other side of the river was little more than an idea pulled out of the air. The library people are likewise foolish to hope for peripheral parking near future MTA stations when extension of the Red Line is certainly years away...
...story is a poke-in-the-ribs at the absurd histrionics of the Bliss family (a quasi-retired actress, her hack-writing husband, and their two long-suffering children) who invite four similarly foolish characters for a weekend in the English countryside. The plot unravels with the reception and treatment of the guests, and winds up with the visitors making a furtive escape after one memorable night...
...tradition of the nineteenth century which created Pierrot during the French Revolution, Bip is the nostalgic dreamer, arousing pity and empathy as he is confronted by each successive disaster, yet spurred on again and again by the enlightening force of hope. Forever chasing some distant ideal, following some foolish dream, Bip unabashedly exposes yearnings in ourselves which perhaps we try to hide behind a shield of cynicism. Marceau says of Bip, now more than a quarter of a century old, "I see him before me, fully matured, winking his eye at me near that ancient street lamp, no longer just...
...would be foolish to assume trained corporate analysts (Derek Bok, F. Skiddy Von Stage) are merely basing this decision on ideology. Nonesense, they are basing on statistics that indicate that in 20 years Harvard males (that means us!) will give more than females. And the sad part is they are right. Needless to say, the prospect of cutting a Harvard class in half is out of the question and it would be first doubled to "save" an endowment so large a separate investment fund is necessary, even at the ridiculous cost of worsening our housing situation. This is efficiency...