Word: foolishness
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...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...
...screen was not art--or accuracy Anderson, who is 20-years old, is a veteran of nine of these tele-movies in her 12-year career. Her reason for doing "The Freshman Year" is simple: "The fact is, it's very commercial, and I knew I would be foolish not to," she said, dangling a cigarette between takes last week...
...with fragrances of Rod McKuen. At one wedding of the time, the bridegroom rhapsodized: "It is therefore our glorious and divine purpose to fly mountains, to sow petalscent. . . to glorify glory, to love with love." His bride answered: "We hereby commit ourselves to a serenity more flamboyant and more foolish than a petalfall of Magnolia." And the bridegroom came back thus: "This is the purest double helix of our us-ness...