Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard, given the scarce job market around the country for academics, will begin to dissuade the most talented young scholars from choosing to come to Harvard if they have the choice in a tenure track position at another university. "If one had a viable offer elsewhere, it would be foolish to come here," Dale says, adding, "Other universities of lesser stature can lure the best professors away, because they can say what no responsible person at Harvard can say--'we could hire you.'" Other professors disagree with Dale's prophesy, believing that Harvard's prestige and research facilities will continue...
...unknown debut album, to the 1976 blockbuster, Turnstiles. Each album gave the music world fresh looks at life, love and people, all set to Joel's masterful keyboard compositions. Whether he was ridiculing the radical in "Angry Young Man," probing sentimentality in "You're My Home," or reminiscing about foolish teenage love in "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant," Joel maintained a lyrical poignancy that hit home with both his listeners and his critics...
When it comes to fighting inflation, food prices count too. The President seems penny-wise and pound-foolish...
Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish...
...still interested in Singer's work, which he mostly wrote in Yiddish, you would be foolish to drop by a talk on "The Place of Yiddish Literature in East European Culture" next Monday at 4:30 p.m. in Boylston Auditorium since Chone Schmeruk, a professor at Hebrew Univ. in Jerusalem, will not be giving the lecture...