Word: foolishness
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...going badly. Most voters complain about street crimes and fear that all kinds of crime are increasing. They are angry at what they consider a still-spiraling cost of living and unfair, ever-rising taxes, while their income seems to be frozen. They regard busing to integrate schools as foolish. As they search for the causes of their malaise, they do not necessarily blame President Nixon. But they do feel that the Nixon Administration and party leaders lie to them. They do not trust the press, either. The cynicism extends, surprisingly, even to Nixon's celebrated summitry in Peking...
...second teen-age bride. Three years later the Chaplins were divorced after loud litigation. The American public booed his on-screen image; annihilation beckoned. Chaplin tried a master tactic. "I married Lita Grey because I loved her," he announced in the sentimental idiom of the silent film. "Like other foolish men, I loved her more when she wronged me, and I'm afraid I still love her." The statement rescued Chaplin's career-until next time...
...years and feels that it is richly deserved. The second is Mildred, the wife of Colonel Layton, Maybel's stepson. The third is the book's major figure, a retired mission schoolteacher named Barbie Batchelor. She is a good, decent person, not very bright, and downright foolish about matters of practicality and self-interest. For 40 years she has tried to bring little Indian schoolchildren to Jesus, and now she doubts whether she did any good. At the end of the book, from her hospital window, Miss Batchelor sees the wheeling carrion birds of a Parsi tower...
...most radical level, the New Feminism at times seems to constitute an assault-sometimes thoughtful, sometimes emotional and foolish-not just on society but on the limitations of biology. Some argue that through the science of eugenics, the genetic code could be altered to produce a different kind of man and woman. Short of that, the extremists demand a complete withdrawal from dependence on men, including sexual ties. Village Voice Columnist Jill Johnston, for example, insists that "feminism is lesbianism" and that it is only when women do not rely upon men to fulfill their sexual needs that they...
...Foolish Wives, a rarely-seen 1921 masterpiece by Erich von Stroheim, playing with Bunuel's Chien Andalou. Mather House Dining Hall...