Word: foolishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more significant obstacle is the College's foolish pretense that the house system is capable of providing an adequate social life. Thus, the undergraduate population is divided into tiny portions for Thropstock, Quincy Spring Weekend, Quadfest...
...Rider and M*A*S*H, glamourized drug use. But at some point, the world's artists, producers and media executives decided that promoting drugs was not a good thing. Nowadays the message that children receive from entertainment is strong and unambiguous: drugs are dangerous, and taking them is foolish. I hope that the future messages my two boys receive about sex and violence make just as much sense...
...reports in Moscow, the KGB has "unmasked" some 30 Soviets engaged in spying for the West in the past four years. This year alone, 100,000 Soviets are expected to visit the U.S., giving the CIA unprecedented access to ordinary citizens. Intelligence experts suggest that the U.S. would be foolish not to take advantage of opportunities to recruit agents in the Soviet Union as well, if only to establish a network that could be deployed in case glasnost evaporates...
...performance jars with the masterful seduction in which he involves himself. Barbaro reaches his most immature moments when he adopts the persona of a doctor to further his advances (a plot twist reminiscent of Moliere). It simply is not believable. And James Baker's portrayal of the stupid and foolish husband whose wife is the object of this intrigue is wooden and uninteresting...
Very nice. But invoking Rilke to demonstrate Bruckner is an impulse perhaps best confided to close friends, and certainly not to 100 or so impatient orchestra players. Besides, any conductor who was foolish enough to flog his musicians with images of leaves -- let alone leaves whimpering in denial -- would be hooted off the podium at the first fluttering whimp. Thomas learned a lesson on this point in his callow days during a rehearsal of Also Sprach Zarathustra with the Chicago Symphony. All his schoolboy nattering on the intellectual subtext of Strauss evoked only sly mockery from the musicians. At length...