Word: foolishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of the residents felt that the crackdown was unnecessary and even foolish. "I have friends in Thayer. We're just joking," Holworthy's Bob Sturim '87 said yesterday...
...Godfather, you will recall, Don Corleone's crime organization was run at the day-to-day level by caporegimes in charge of certain geographic areas. Anyone foolish enough to interfere with Corleone's operations--gambling, bootlegging, extortion, loan-sharking and racketeering--would be either warmed or simply rubbed out by these gangsters. In real life, Third World dictatorships--such as those of Haiti, the Philippines and Chile--act as caporegimes--protectors of the interests of United States government...
...reference to your editorial in the September 20 issue of The Crimson ("Staying Calm"), it is incredibly foolish to suppose that the way to stay calm is by not facing the facts. As the dissenting opinion on the same page pointed out, blaming the murder of 269 innocent individuals on such an amorphous "criminal" as the Cold War is ludicrous. No matter how you look at it as calmly as coolly as you please. Flight 007 was shot down by a Russian jet fighter. It's that plain and simple. Any other "explanation" fails to face the facts...
...went Hu, describing the paranoia growing. Mao had disliked intellectuals ever since he had been a $30-a-month librarian in Peking in his youth. "The more knowledge you give the people," said Mao, "the more you hold back revolutionary thought." Or, "The more books people read, the more foolish they become." So Mao let loose the Cultural Revolution, but, said Hu, "once he let the genie out of the bottle, he could not put it back...
...interview after the meeting. Sorensen recalled his long-standing association with Hart. "When President Carter was foolish enough to nominate me to be head of the CIA in 1977. Gary was one of the few members of the Senate Intelligence Committee to be friendly...