Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McGovern campaign is another Children's Crusade, as foolish as the first and equally destined to fail...
...vote-getter. However, whether director Michael Ritchie and screenwriter Jeremy Larner feel this process necessary, and McKay's actions morally justified, is unclear. In the context of easy ironies that the film develops, in which all men are power-hungry or venal on a solely personal level, it is foolish to invoke moral considerations at all: though I presume that the attitude the filmmakers wanted to express was "this is the way the system works, and if we want to change it from within, we will have to temper our idealism." (Pretty apt sentiments for today, coming from...
...Roberta Flack, from Eddie Condon to Sonny Rollins-wailed through 30 concerts in eleven various settings (range: 300 seats to 32,000). When it was all over, more than 100,000 jazz buffs had paid a total of $500,000 to listen to a music that more than a foolish few had considered dead years ago, gone with Kid Ory, Bunny Berigan and Charlie Parker. Some, indeed, settled in for the duration, paying $122 for a ticket to all 30 events...
...commercial calamity. It reverses decades of air transport progress, namely increased speed combined with greater efficiency to produce lower fares. Any airline operating the Concorde would be forced to cross-subsidize it. i.e.. raise subsonic fares. I hope no airport operator in the U.S. would be foolish enough to let this noisy, smoky, expensive pre-ecology-awarencss De Gaulle legacy land...
...favorites, but Cayce in fact had many misses in his predictions. What gave him his credibility was a more limited but very special talent, the ability to diagnose illnesses of persons many miles away. Many Americans ?most, the optimistic would say ?still find the craze for prophecy foolish and even bankrupt. Others may enjoy the predictions for what many of them are?a parlor entertainment. But millions, obviously, need reassurance about the future...