Word: foolishness
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...Foolish White House...
...COLLECTED STORIES OF ANDRE MAUROIS. In 38 tales framed as conversations, recollections and letters, the late distinguished partisan in the battle of the sexes takes a deep look at women who are either wise or foolish, vital or declining, in love or remembering what it was like...
Lovers & Cars. The 38 stories read like the notebook of a benign confessor. Most of them are about women-beautiful and rich, wise and foolish, vital and declining, ensnaring and ensnared in a love trap. Or if not in love, then remembering what it was like and regretting the flight of passion. Maurois' women give to friendship only what they steal from love; they give to love only what their husbands have forgotten how to take. His couples are always married but rarely to one another. They change lovers the way Americans trade cars. The transfers usually take place...
There still remains the possibility that a small number of students will be singled out for some sort of punishment. That course of action is foolish and illogical. It is also unjust. The random selection of scapegoats would foster rancor instead of reflection, and would create martyrs where there is now simply an array of advocates...
...bomb North Viet Nam out of existence. But "could it bring stability and resistance to Communism to Southeast Asia? The spectacle of the world's most powerful nation becoming obsessed with the destruction of a relatively insignificant Asian country, for whatever reason, is unseemly. It is foolish...