Word: foolishness
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...that Bradesku was entitled to compensation. The Church of God promises to appeal the verdict as far as necessary, and it would seem likely that its constitutional arguments would get a warmer reception in higher courts. But the case has been so unusual so far that it would be foolish for anyone to predict the outcome...
...would be foolish not to recognize that many students--perhaps the majority at Harvard--are fairly content with the system as it operates. A large number not only intend to go on to graduate school, but see the College as a prep school for the University. This sort of student is almost ideally suited to the education Harvard is able to give...
...deep personalization of the event. And his success as a journalist can be attributed to his talent as a novelist. As he writes of himself: . . . he was a novelist and so in need of studying every last lineament of the fine, the noble, the frantic, and the foolish in others and in himself. Such egotism being two-headed, thrusting itself forward the better to study itself, finds itself therefore at home in a house of mirrors, since it has habits, even the talent to regard itself. Once history inhabits a crazy house, egotism may be the last tool left...
Undoubtedly, history's judgment of Westmoreland's generalship will depend in large measure on the outcome of the expected Khe Sanh battle. Some critics feel that defending the remote outpost is a foolish gamble that heavily favors the Communists. "Why fight at Khe Sanh at all?" asks French General André Beaufre, who served for five years in Indo-China. "Logistically, the fight favors the North Vietnamese. You have allowed them once again to choose the time and place of battle...
Sweet November is a little love sto ry that should be fey, funny, touching and bittersweet. Instead it is foolish, lugubrious, sloppy and saccharine. Flashing her little half-smiles in all directions, Sandy is supposed to be a delicious young thing who picks up men and takes them home to share her bed for a month at a time in order to alleviate their hang-ups, or whatever. Anthony Newley is supposed to be an upright box manufacturer who becomes Mr. November...