Word: foolishment
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...parties in freshman dorms, being around people suffering from the “I’m away from home for the first time so I’ll behave like I’ve just gotten out of prison” syndrome, and the noble and foolish desire to get straight As in all of your classes. It all fades faster than the lessons of Expos class...
...many Catholics such as myself, troubled by a Church that seems to be losing ground and a society that seems increasingly hostile to our beliefs, this message of hope is not an easy one. It can even seem foolish in the face of the kinds of social change we have seen just over the past decade. What hope can we hold in the dignity of man when all around us, every day, we see that dignity violated repeatedly, brazenly, and without consequence? What hope can we hold in the triumph of our faith, when our priests violate our trust...
...Pope John Paul II's visit in the 1980s. I know he saw the same poverty I saw. I was appalled and wished I could help. The Pope had the power to mitigate the worldwide overpopulation problem, yet he chose to continue the policy banning contraception, which, like the foolish rule of celibacy for priests, has no convincing basis in Scripture. I hold John Paul II accountable for millions of children who roam the earth unloved and unwanted, leading lives of abject poverty, hunger and persistent misery...
...piece out of a batch he had sent in, a small, eerily funny sketch, "Local Family Keeps Son Happy." It was written in the plonking style of a country newspaper, and it reported that two householders, hoping to shield their teenage son from the dangers of fast driving and foolish companions, had acquired a live-in prostitute...
...part of a tutorial designed by his aides to coach Ronald Reagan for his meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev. It is clearly a delicate operation. His advisers are busily pulling together as broad a curriculum on the Soviet Union as they can, in part to prevent Reagan from making foolish or unintentionally provocative remarks. At the same time, they realize that if he is stuffed full of facts and figures, he risks becoming bogged down in confused detail, as he was in his first debate last year with Walter Mondale...