Word: foolishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of a people. There are few men so foolish; hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world...
Titus Andronicus (William Hutt), doughtiest general of the Roman state, has come home with his Gothic captives. Turning aside the proffered imperial crown, he bestows it on Saturninus (Jack Wetherall), an odious opportunist though royal in lineage. Titus prefigures Lear's foolish error in dividing up his kingdom...
...settled upon whole sectors of the American psyche that once could not wait to get up in the morning. Progress has collided with the philosophy of limits. Of all cultural adjustments, the notion of an end to progress seems the most difficult for Americans to accept. It is foolish that a general cultural drift makes them feel that they must...
...more extreme collaborators, then obviously there will be serious problems. The extent to which he might associate himself with dissident movements trying to subvert the South African government, either from outside or inside, is going to be of very great importance. But it would obviously be unwise and foolish of South Africa to sponsor a subversive action against Mugabe. This [type of suggestion] is merely the sort of militant noise that Mugabe apparently believes would favorably affect his image...
...urge those called upon to register to refuse, and to refuse loudly. The arguments against registration are sound--it is militarily foolish, coercive, and motivated in large part by President Carter's re-election campaign. Registration now will trim by only a handful of days the time it takes to induct Americans--on that ground alone even former Calif. Gov. Ronald Reagan opposes the plan. As a sign of "national solidarity" in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, draft registration is a part of Carter's dangerously confrontational stance of reviving the cold war. And as a part...