Word: foolishment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green Table remains the best of the Jooss ballets, wears well as a masterpiece. In it ten of the dancers mime as diplomats, first suave, later pompous, finally furious. With foolish toy pistols they start the war through which Death stalks, imperiously destroying soldiers and their womenfolk, pecking fatally at a cocky little profiteer, sparing only the diplomats, inscrutably masked, back at the green table again making more trouble...
...work as a nurse in the Civil War, and the hard ships in Scotland for the generation "just following the Industrial Revolution of George Ill's reign." To one who had lived through so many wars, talk of the problem of the younger generation seemed foolish. "Death had flown in flocks through Gregrannie. She knew its sounds and stinks. The Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, the World War, had taken their toll...
...TIME, Sept. 14), Olympic Sprinter Jesse Owens was cornered at the home of a Manhattan police lieutenant, muttered: "I made the statement [endorsing Landon] all right, but what I do in the voting booth may be another matter. Almost everyone I have talked to has told me I was foolish and ought to retract. ... I am too young to know anything about politics...
...slowness and extreme cruelty. But it is blind and mechanical; and accordingly its products are just as likely to be esthetically, morally, or intellectually repulsive to us as they are to be attractive or worthy of imitation. . . . For the statesman or the eugenist to copy its methods is both foolish and wicked...
...born to be a beat-seller and no one but could be glad that it is. Tremendonaly long, dealing with the period of our greatest national crisis, written moreover from the losing (and of action and skillful characterisation, it is an experience that the American reader would be foolish to disregard...