Word: foolishness
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While the book is limited to the Boston area, the editors feel the idea can be adapted to other communities. "There are few assumptions," wrote Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, in the foreword, "more unrealistic, foolish, and wasteful than the assumption that serious study and work in many fields must be full time...
...civil rights plank of the platform, and as President will uphold and enforce the civil rights law. As President, I would want an Attorney General who would enforce the law. My Attorney General would uphold the law or I would get another one." He said that segregation is "foolishness in these times, just as anti-Semitism or anti-Catholicism are foolish. We just can't afford these prejudices at this time...
...known that "eight years ago" (actually, it was 1954), he was operated on for the removal of a cancerous kidney, an area in which malignancy is fatal 63% of the time. "They gave me eight months to live," he said. "Somehow I survived. The Lord chooses the foolish to confound the wise...
...earlier production can only be disappointed by John Devlin's bland and colorless performance. Patrick Hines, who did Rosencrantz before, has moved up to Polonius. Given to excessive handclapping, he takes the easy way out and plays the role only for its comedy. Polonius is much more than the "foolish prating knave" Hamlet calls...
...represent a way of life to many teenagers. Most of the death-type songs teach us a lesson that all teen-agers should learn. Just because some of them are death ballads by no means indicates a wish to die by teenagers. They only teach us not to be foolish while getting thrills...