Word: foolishness
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...foolish, irresponsible bully-boy tactics drew justified cries of outrage from Russians. At the Soviet mission in New York, a diplomat complained that even Soviet schoolchildren were being disparaged by hecklers from a synagogue across the street. "Our Soviet people don't believe in God," he said, "but we respect religious buildings. Yet these people who say they believe in God climb on top of the synagogue and shout four-letter words at our children. The leaders of the synagogue say they don't approve, but they don't do anything. I simply do not believe that...
...responsibility for learning devolves on the student anyway. No amount of requirements, however foolish, can force learning. It is also silly that freshmen have more freedom than seniors. Senior year is the right time for free study and should perhaps be dedicated to the question of "What have I learned?" or given how things run now, "What should I have learned?" Freshmen should study mathematics, Greek, music and drawing...
...Anyone foolish enough to talk that way about today's athletes would be sued for defamation of character. The outspoken, power-conscious modern player no more accepts the daguerreotype than Muhammad Ali relates to Uncle Tom. In college and professional sports there are boycotts, strikes and lawsuits by players challenging the established order. Nothing is deader than the old locker-room adage that there is no "I" in T. . .E. . .A. . .M, or that coach equates with king. The free safety is now a freethinker. The inarticulate tackle of old now has his own TV talk show. The rangy...
Alarming News. Khrushchev says that in the spring of 1962, at a meeting in the Kremlin, he spoke about how Cuba's Fidel Castro had resisted the Bay of Pigs landing only a year earlier. "I said that it would be foolish to expect the inevitable second invasion to be as badly planned and executed as the first. I warned that Fidel would crushed and said we were the only ones who could prevent such a disaster from occurring." Khrushchev found another justification: "The Americans had surrounded our own country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons...
...doodles took the forms of Boob McNutt, Mike and Ike and Foolish Questions. By 1922, Goldberg was earning well over $100,000 a year and had been syndicated by McNaught and King Features. In 1948 he won a Pulitzer Prize for a cartoon called Peace Today, warning of the perils of atomic weapons. But politics did not suit him, and though there were flashes of wit, he gave...