Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...workingman's family in Bridgeport, an Irish neighborhood in that South Side region known, without comment, as Back of the Yards. He was born to membership in the Hamburgs, an athletic club whose members took their exercise by beating the bejesus out of any blacks and Slavs foolish enough to stray onto the wrong side of the street. As young Hamburgs grew older, fatter and more sophisticated, the bonds of brotherhood held and forged a collective political power. The proto-mayor eventually used it to propel him into office...
...Publishing, publishers of True Story, Photoplay, and True Confessions; and corporate dress codes, from Bonwit's to United Airlines to California's Jeans West; are often fascinating, despite their sometimes under-researched, often slightly censorious poses. At least Rags has a firm clinch on its enemies. And its rather foolish compulsion to overkill with a succession of such body blows is often fun to watch...
...program hurt its message by overstating its case. Shots of the VIPs seemed to be selected to make them look foolish. The script, though generally well-done, was sometimes flawed by heavily underlining its points, trying too hard for irony or poignancy (after a firepower demonstration: "War is not fought in front of a grandstand"). Numerous complaints about factual accuracy and deceptive editing followed from Defense Department Spokesman Daniel Z. Henkin. But the issues were relatively minor and probably beside the point; more significant was the program's overall impact. Investigative reporting is strongest when it includes the best...
...attacks on the University: As the CRIMSON argued last fall, although the University does share a certain complicity in the war, the primary task at hand is to oppose the war on a national level. Similarly, those for whom academic freedom is an equally overwhelming concern would be foolish to mistake the disruption as an internal cancer that can be isolated and destroyed. They too should make their first order of business opposition to the war, for until this secret and immoral war ends, the destructive effect it has on our national life will continue. And if this larger sickness...
...France, site of the 1968 Winter Olympics. There, in a 40-ft. boat, he was pushed around a man-made lake by a minuscule half-horsepower engine, maneuvering his craft with his eyes at the same level he now gets from the bridge of the Europoort. "It looks rather foolish with all of us out there in these boats during the daytime," he says. "But at night, when all practicing captains are using only their running lights and we're trying to move those models with that tiny engine, it is very much the real thing." After Grenoble...