Word: foolishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There were a lot of jokes where he appeared foolish or lacking strong character," says Rosa Maria Calaf, assistant bureau chief of Spanish national television's New York Bureau. "Those have completely disappeared." The common thinking today is that as prince Juan Carlos could not risk his position as successor to assure his critics. "He was playing a role," says Calaf, adding. "He didn't want to appear as a danger to the [Franco] regime...
...representative of the P.L.O. recently. Bok did not condemn Kenyatta, even though the Law School incident came shortly after he had heaped abuse on the members of the Pi Eta Club for their sexist newsletter. The Pi Eta's actions were no doubt despicable--if not a little foolish--but were Kenyatta's any less...
...TOOK THE WOMEN'S movement 20 years to quash the turn-of-the-century stereotype of the suffragette as a humorless shrew. Foolish efforts to raise the status of women by fig-leaFing the media will ressurect this long-dead stereotype. Feminism fought a long battle to be taken seriously; feminists like MacKinnon and Dworkin are only inviting the kind of derision they want to avoid...
American companies' support for the police state is reprehensible. But Harvard would be foolish to dump its power to change them...
Best of all, the Soviets would probably not do anything as foolish as start a fight. If they were to do so, however, they would probably not come back to fight another day: realizing the futility of their earth-based spears against the new, space-based American shield, the Soviets might set down, or at least phase out, their missiles and other weapons of aggression. Following the American example, they too would shift to defense rather than retaliation. The world would be a safer place. Reagan has even suggested that the U.S. might some day share its defensive technology with...