Word: foolishness
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...pleasures. What Harvard and Radcliffe have found out for themselves Yale will now have a chance to learn: that there are many stops on the great highway we call Life, there are many turns, and many detours. Bandits lie in wait to harrass the tardy, pitfalls to ensnare the foolish, and pimps and whores to seduce the virgins...
...evenly among the show's various departments, that a central hand is nowhere particularly evident. The blocking and pacing lack discipline, but the cast had obvious technical difficulties, like falling flats, to contend with last night, so maybe matters will improve ere long. Whether or no, idle visions and foolish comparisons aside, they've got a good thing going...
...Hollywood heavy in many of his countless films (among them: Thieves' Highway, On the Waterfront), he almost invariably brought glimmerings of insight to even the most routine parts. At the age of 57, he is quite clearly ready for the challenge of Lear. His king is blind, incurably foolish, a man eventually so scoured by suffering that his death is like a saint's birth. The portrayal has an all-involving humanity from which an audience cannot withhold some of its deepest and most turbulent emotions...
...unforgettable day five years ago, such an example of courage, dignity and true love to a thunderstruck world that nothing, absolutely nothing can ever erase it from our hearts. So let her marry whomever she fancies, wear her skirts as high as she pleases, do any crazy, foolish thing she can think of. She has all the right in the world...
...universities should be citadels of our freedom, the guardians and nourishers of free inquiry and expression. They are by their very nature the very custodians of our cultural heritage and the progenitors of a new day. They should be the testing ground for any and all ideas, even foolish ones. The American university should be in microcosm what we would wish for the American society, a free and open community filled with searching and thinking individuals, each seeking his own answers in his own way, yet each extending full respect for the ideals and life styles of others...