Word: foolishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must attempt to fully understand the incident, realistically evaluating both its causes and its repercussions, if we are ever to make progress in preventing terrorism in the Middle East. The "swift and severe retaliation" which Mr. Kahn suggests and which so many Americans have called for would only be foolish and counterproductive in this situation. Jennifer Plane '86-7 Harvard-Radcliffe Society For Lebanese Affairs
...determined to take a break from the neck-breaking cramming I had suffered throughout those four years. I can't even remember some of the courses I took freshman year, but most were pretty good. And most of them required at least a dozen books. Of course, only the foolish and the lonely read everything, but at least I bought everything the Coop had to offer. By the end of my college career, I figure I will have spent more than $2000 on coursebooks, and one thing I will have to show my children for my college education will...
...Britain battles with the Kaiser's troops from 1914 to 1918, nationalism mounts to a frenzy. The playwright-polemicist refuses to be carried along. "War reduces us all to a common level of savagery and vulgarity," he writes to a colleague, "but at least we can shew how foolish the whole business is even from the point of view of British and German Junkerdom." In the hysteria of conflict this dual indictment earns Shaw the enmity of his countrymen. Friends cut him dead; libraries remove his books from their shelves. Still his letters refuse to compromise, and their integrity discloses...
Marden's work reminds one how silly was the death-of-abstract-art talk heard so much at the start of the '80s, as foolish as the death-of-painting cant in the '70s. Much of the work of younger American artists remains abstract, whether "decorative" (Alan Shields, Valerie Jaudon or the exuberant Judy Pfaff, whose manic, space-consuming constructions are hybrids of painting and sculpture) or more ostensibly rigorous in its aims, like that of Gary Stephan, 42. His paintings are like massive and vivid reflections on late cubism, especially the utopian "cubifying" abstraction of the 1920s, as practiced...
...hastening the day when the threat will grow and we will be faced with an agonizing choice about the use of American combat troops." The New York Times printed a pair of articles last week speculating that the Administration was moving closer to the invasion option. "That's foolish," charged White House Spokesman Larry Speakes. "The President has no plans to use U.S. military forces in Central America, period...