Word: foolishness
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Fortunately, the thirty-two essays in A Stress Analysis are neither so fatuous nor so foolish as the preface. Some are funny. In his autobiographical notes, Einstein wrote that "the essential in the being of a man of my type lies precisely in what he thinks and how he thinks, not in what he does or suffers." Scientific humor is mostly about their thought and the products of it: lot of it is word play. public: the comedy is over. Too bad that we have ended up in Hell...
...foolish for the Council to try to compete with the CRIMSON on bringing attention to minor problems. With few exceptions, the Council has allowed itself to fall into a "me-too" role, picking up issues from the CRIMSON and presenting short, generally worthless statements, weeks after a CRIMSON news story or editorial. In any competition on minor matters the Council is doomed to lose, both because its deliberations, often necessarily picayune, are public, and because the CRIMSON automatically commands a wider audience...
...exceeded his authority and urged that his order "be expunged so that there would be nothing in our records which could be cited as a precedent." Three others held that the "right to be let alone," enunciated by the late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, covers "a great many foolish, unreasonable and even absurd ideas which do not conform, such as refusing medical treatment, even at great risk...
...that is applied over and over both to him and to Barry Goldwater; the word "commitment" crops up again and again in Graham's speeches. Graham, like Goldwater is often criticized for presenting simple answers to complex problems. The words of each man, read in cold print, seem fantastically foolish to some people. Yet when he presents his views in person, each man wins the approval of almost any audience. Graham's semi-fundamentalist views win applause at Rindge Tech just as Goldwater's discourses on poverty receive standing ovations from his listeners...
...newest novel is a plotless collection of cultural chatter about an imaginary French novel. Like her own book, the new work is called The Golden Fruits. It is praised extravagantly by a few literary lions. Cultural toadies in Parisian salons begin to croak approvingly about it. A few foolish rebels dare suggest it is unreadable...