Word: foolishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state police agent was wired with hidden microphones and sent into the Ebony Room, but the dealers were not foolish enough to sell to a stranger. Watson then went to the bar with a female undercover agent, introducing her as a friend who wanted to buy cocaine. Says Sandberg: "The absolute worst happened. One of the men recognized her as a narcotics cop." After she left, Watson's keen undercover instincts saved him: he had just met the woman, he claimed, laughing, and had no idea she was a narc...
...slept that night. Exam period was to begin the following morning; and if the term paper wasn't done by then, well, either in was too late or the section leader would give you and extension until Friday. But I stayed at the Crimson with a handful of equally foolish editors and at 7 a.m. a sophomore somehow figured out how to run the massive Goss Community press without the aid of our paid, pro- fessional employee. I grabbed a couple thousand "Extras" and drove off in a buff-colored VW Rabbit to the Science Center, where nobody knew...
With a sigh that warns this is going to sound crazy, the celebrated Celtic backcourtman Bob Cousy declares: "In five years everyone will say it. But I'm ready to say it now. Larry Bird is the best player who ever played this foolish game...
...possible that Smash Palace is either very brave or very foolish in its refusal to calculate how its moral is likely to anger feminists. But since it is a movie stamped with integrity in every frame, it seems more likely that it was made with no ideology in mind, just a desire to show how a specific marriage was put asunder. Al and Jacqui may or may not be typical, but they are poignantly particularized people without a drop of soapsuds clinging to them...
...that Emerson had to harden into a monument, into mere required reading, or worse, the man superseded by Kurt Vonnegut on the course lists. Too many generations came to regard him as a chill, gnomic bore, the best of American aphorists, no doubt, but also the most relentless ("A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," "Traveling is a fool's paradise," "... fired the shot heard round the world," and even the 1960s' dreamy license, "Do your thing"). His fatally worthy subjects (Self-Reliance, Prudence, Friendship) have oppressed generations of eighth-grade English classes. People should probably...