Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Which is all to say, that Vegas has been pretty much handed over to the damned. Why even bother to toss a stray bomb into its midst, when sooner or later the city will consume itself in flame? Yet, at the same time, we were foolish enough to believe that it was to give us back a part of our past...
...would be foolish to think that, even with the release of these documents, the work of the DAS will have been unfolded in every detail. The papers do not by themselves describe the impact of the agency where it has functioned or the innermost thoughts of those who have taken part in it. But as members of an academic community and, presumably, an open society, DAS officials should feel obligated to offer their public every possible criterion for appraisal and judgment...
...petty men, he saw things in the larger perspective of man as the eternal presumptuous ape, full of folly, and pomposity and greed, yet strangely lovable. He forged a link between every human being by reminding us that for better or for worse, we are all stuck with our foolish, fumbling selves. Some of Rogers' humor has a peculiarly pertinent contemporaneity as when he chides the Federal Government for its ignoble abuse of the Indians (he was part Cherokee), or when he speaks, gently but tellingly, of his hatred...
Whether the former ideal was ever realized by any American university is doubtful, but it would be foolish to say that the college experience does ?? afford the individual a means of finding and developing his true self. The pursuit of knowledge can be for a certain individual a search for the truth of human experience as it pertains to himself. The acquisition of knowledge, no matter how trivial or "??-functional" it may appear, influences in varied and often subtle ways the development of the human personality...
...militancy. When he wrote a magazine article last fall, a copy taped to the wall of a law school corridor was soon decorated with unflattering graffiti by activist student commentators. Unfazed, Bickel condemned "student revolutionaries intent on destroying the universities. To believe they are participating in parlor discussions is foolish...