Word: foolishness
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Wilford's fourth interception, a foolish pass he threw late while rolling right and under pressure, killed a drive that had gotten to the Brown 40, and Harvard's Ivy hopes are now gasping for breath, if not dead...
With a pair of Brown defenders lying helplessly on the field and looking foolish, Badawy broke free and made a run straight for the Bears' goal...
...come as a surprise to me [WORLD, Oct. 11]. I spent 26 months in the U.S. Army in Korea doing my mandatory military service. I've seen G.I.s in panic. And what's worse, when a few stupid G.I.s don't stop doing foolish, sometimes cruel things, the result can be murder and rape. YOON WONSUP Seoul...
Bryan Ferry has always loved doing cover versions. On the Roxy Music lead singer's first two solo albums (These Foolish Things and Another Time Another Place), he imbibed casual-distant cool into such songs as "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes." As Time Goes By goes even further back in time, revisiting the fundamental things in the form of old jazz standards, including Cole Porter tracks ("Miss Otis Regrets") and of course the title track...
This short synopsis cannot do justice to the work or the performance. We all know how the story must end--we would be foolish to suspect that More would give in. But the reason the audience can be so deeply moved in ways it doesn't completely understand is that the focus is not on political intrigue or what is right or wrong. We care because More is an honorable man in circumstances that are all too real. And the fact that he is the best of what we aspire to be makes his fate even more heartbreaking, even though...