Word: foolishness
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...shoves Othello, first on film, then live, across the gap and onto the other screen. The husband returning from the business trip now finds Othello in his wife's armoire. Farce to be sure, but so neatly coordinated that its humor is as artful as it is foolish...
...could stand. He quit to doodle in the art departments of both the Chronicle and the Bulletin. Later he moved to the Evening Mail in New York. There one day, after finishing a cartoon for the sports page, he found a little space left over and filled it with FOOLISH QUESTION No. 1, showing a man who had fallen from the Flatiron Building being asked by a bystander if he was hurt. (Answer: "No, I jump off this building every day to limber up for business...
...foolish to argue that Africa or Latin America is more or less "important" than India; and a good area studies program does take a long time to develop. But that is not the issue. The departure of the Rudolphs does not weaken modern Indian studies at Harvard; it eliminates them. And as neither the Government nor the History Department has allocated a place to India--the presence of an assistant professor and a lecturer who are specialists in this field has been basically a fortunate accident--there is no reason to expect Indian studies to reappear...
...freight loader in Edge of the City was both laughing boy and leader, with the universal quality that inspires followers, much like the high school student he played in Blackboard Jungle. His trapped, foolish, ambitious, odds-against-him young husband in A Raisin in the Sun was an agonized study in subhysterical frustration. In Lilies of the Field, his smolderings are banked far down beneath the surface of his easygoing life, but he manages to reveal them in a word here, a gesture there...
...rumor was laid to rest when it finally reached Tass General Director Dimitri Goryunov in Moscow, who called it "foolish nonsense." Within 15 minutes, D.P.A. was backtracking: ACHTUNG EDITORS: PLEASE DO NOT USE. Next morning the report made nothing but anticlimactic headlines, such as the London Daily Herald's: KHRUSHCHEV DEAD? NO, HE'S SIPPING VODKA...