Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FOLLIES (120). A work of art, rich, various, strange, hauntingly compelling. To float through time in the fragile, foolish bark of the self, and see life through the bifocal lenses of 20 and 50 simultaneously-that is the amazing achievement of this Proustian musical...
...loft or make an electronic sculpture lies within a few blocks, among the tool-rental businesses of Greene Street, the lumberyards of Spring and Wooster, the hardware stores on West Broadway, and the bazaars of secondhand circuitry, gadgets and plastics that line Canal Street. It would be easy, and foolish, to sentimentalize SoHo into a kind of American Montparnasse, full of jolly creative gnomes secreting art and sharing the chili. The fact is that life there is, in general, considerably more agreeable than in Greenwich Village. Paradoxically, this is because SoHo is not officially residential. The very lack of amenities...
From the perspective of the '70s, it is all too easy to dismiss America's past isolationism as inevitably misguided and foolish. As Selig Adler points out in The Isolationist Impulse, the doctrine in many ways is "woven into the warp and woof of the American epic." From the very beginnings of the U.S., immigrants envisioned it as a way to a new existence. "They reasoned," Adler wrote of the colonists, "that God Himself had intended to divide the globe into separate spheres. America was the 'New Zion,' and Providence had severed this 'American Israel...
...course a foolish notion that the same man who terminated the contract will act objectively on the findings of the review board," the faculty member said...
...that "every intelligent person comes to a stage in life... when he begins to question himself as to what purpose is there in life." For in his prior existence, "whatever a person's position or condition in life might be, whether this is a wise man or a foolish man, whether this is an educated man or an illiterate man, if he knows not his life's purpose, then he remains discontented...