Word: foolishly
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Nixon is not foolish enough to close his eyes or ears to the burgeoning scandal, but he has tried his damndest to close the eyes and ears of the American people. Last Friday, he issued a "speak-no-evil" directive, reinvoking the policy of executive privilege which he had clamped on his aides during the first nine months of the Watergate investigation...
FEAR is THE KEY. In the prologue to this foolish thriller, Barry Newman loses his wife, his child and his closest friend. During the first minutes of the film proper, he shoots up some cops and abducts Suzy Kendall, who just happens to be sitting around a Louisiana courtroom, a stroke of luck about as likely as finding Jean Shrimpton whittling in front of some general store. Stealing a convenient Gran Torino, he then sets off over back roads and along the edges of levees, pursuing a band of international heavies while at the same time being pursued...
...present only as an observer. Prof. Ruth Hubbard (Biology) was also present at the speech, but evidently Lemann decided a woman's view was not important. Then too, her comment wouldn't have added to the purpose of his story, to make an intelligent, outspoken Black women look totally foolish, ignorant, and "niggerish" to Crimson readers...
...within the body. You need no one else to tell you if you have "butterflies in your stomach." But social needs are communicated only by socially created symbols. Therapy provides a return to the self; politics creates a restructuring of systems. The ideal society requires both, but it is foolish to think they are identical processes. Indeed, if a therapy makes the person more individualistic, if it isolates him from other people in social activity, that therapy--no matter how much individual tension it releases--threatens the prospects for social revolution...
...thus know each other's moves almost instinctively. Robert has adapted quickly and is the line's best backchecker. Defense against them is a problem. "You can put out a checking line against some other team's best line," says Gibbs, "but it's foolish to try to check these guys-Perreault's just too good with the puck...