Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more rational approach. Are we so superficial that we can't see past a label? If Harvard University suddenly became [Insert Name Here] University, would we not still have the same beautiful campus, storied history, world-class faculty, and stellar student-body? Such stubborn intransigence to change is both foolish and expensive...
...staff is foolish to believe that expunging final clubs would help control the illicit activities alleged in the report. These problems are endemic to universities everywhere...
...addition, the immature and foolish romantic escapades of the twenty-something protagonists are well-contrasted with the twins' constantly bickering parents who attempt to rekindle a marriage that long ago degenerated into mutual abhorrence...
...hour early to grab a good seat, but the first few rows of the Starr Auditorium, virtually empty, are reserved for important people. So I hike to the rear of the hall and park in a sea of K-Schoolers who spend the next half-hour swapping stories about foolish things college kids have been saying in their classes. ("He made this comment, it was very undergraduate-arrogant," one explains.) Finally, Wellstone takes the stage...
...Sartre would have appreciated. Build a massive American theme park a short drive from Paris. Fill it with happy, smiling faces, quaint rides and catchy, inoffensive music and wait for the cultured, sophisticated Europeans to flock to it. It was absurd, a sure failure. Imperial America at its most foolish. Five years ago, Parisians smoking cigarettes at Les Deux Magots sniggered into their cafe au laits as Disneyland Paris opened. No way would the land that invented Existentialism, perfected ennui and made dourness hip go for the hyperactive cheeriness of Mickey Mouse. Ce n'est pas possible. For a while...