Word: foolishness
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...CONJUGAL BED. There's no fool like an old fool, and it's sometimes painfully funny to see one learn just how foolish he is in this Italian comedy about a middle-aged man (Ugo Tognazzi) who marries a young girl (Marina Vlady...
...Damned Big." With such ammunition, foreign aid critics could hardly wait to assault the bill on the House floor. Cried Iowa Republican H. R. Gross: "The day and the hour are at hand to begin ending this foolish notion that it is within the capability of the American people to solve all the problems of the world." Florida Democrat James Haley hoped that Congress would kill "this gigantic boondoggle...
Paul R. Barstow, who seems to be settling down permanently into the role of the slightly foolish but good hearted old man, is deft and witty despite a poor start and occasional lapses of memory, but John A. Williams as the devil has problems. His Lucifer is too much a chatty member of the gang rather than its leader. Kerr is enthusiastic and often persuasive, although at times some of his mannerisms from The Mandrake marred his style. David Mills was a warm Irish-American father...
...accused of Nazi sympathies, an old and absurdly exaggerated charge,* and of meddling too much in Greek politics, hardly a British concern. The anti-Greek chorus is made up of a motley collection of Communists, Socialists, antimonarchists, vague crusaders in search of new causes, ban-the-bombers (including that foolish sage, Bertrand Russell), all of them joined in the London streets by joyriding beatniks. Amazingly, they were also joined, in spirit, by Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson and Deputy Leader George Brown, who chose to boycott a banquet for the visitors-which could only raise questions about the mental health...
...Britain the foolish display of the anti-Greek demonstrators left unpleasant echoes. Those behind the riots, wrote the Daily Mirror, "are not merely leading woolly-minded undergraduates in woolly-minded peace protests; they are providing a shield for mischievous Communist agitation." The paper noted that "Greece is about the only country in eastern Europe free from dictatorship," then posed a question that self-advertised idealists have yet to answer: When was the last time they demonstrated in behalf of the political prisoners of Lithuania or Estonia or Latvia or Poland or Hungary or Rumania or Bulgaria or East Germany...