Word: foolishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doubts about experience and substance which plague any newcomer to national politics soon became serious questions of character. It's one thing to be young; it's quite another to be young and foolish and running for the presidency...
...never, ever should either candidate get so foolish as to start talking about raising taxes or the complexities of Middle East peace negotiations. He might get caught in the Walter Mondale trap of substance over style...
...would have been foolish to have spent "25percent of my time on the problems of one mancompared to 100 percent of my time on the problemsof 220 million," Ford said...
...best of spirits when he wrote A Handful of Dust. He poured his grief at the dissolution of his first marriage into this tale of how dimly amoral Brenda Last cuckolded her dimly moral husband Tony. Waugh managed to cast a cold, wickedly glittering eye on these foolish innocents, and to write about them with bitter, controlled irony. Both suppressing and drawing upon fury and bathos, he produced a masterpiece...
...trying to make this case, it may seem like an unnecessary, self-imposed handicap to start off with a quote from The Greening of America, the definitive expression of the 1960s zeitgeist and possibly the most foolish book ever to be serialized in The New Yorker and debated on the New York Times op-ed page (though that is a bold claim). But just 18 years ago, a book rhapsodizing about the pleasures of getting high got the kind of serious attention reserved more recently for The Fate of the Earth and The Closing of the American Mind. This...