Word: foolishness
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...thing that comes into your head. Around here, we don't speak unless we have something to say, and we think before we speak. We like to be right about what we say." But another girl put it a different way: "We're scared to be wrong, to look foolish before other people. So rather than say something we're unsure of, we say nothing. The pressures in those little seminars is tremendous, sometimes...
...these men-who had dared to defy all powers that be and to challenge all authorities on earth and whose courage was beyond the shadow of a doubt-submitting humbly and without so much as a cry of outrage to the call of historical necessity, no matter how foolish and incongruous the outward appearance of this necessity must have appeared to them . . . They were fooled by history and they have become the fools of history...
...Congress cut expenditures to balance the budget after it reduced taxes, it would simply be deflating the economy to the same extent that it was stimulating it. "Nothing could be more foolish," he observed...
...been "trying to break her neck for years," managed it in a steeplechase; Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey's longtime housekeeper and companion, shot herself and died with "a proud expression on her face." What were they suffering from? An illusion. Author Garnett now thinks, "as beautiful and as foolish as that which underlies Christianity: the belief that men naturally love one another...
...Canada for its failure to equip its jet interceptors and antiaircraft missiles with nuclear warheads, and openly disagreeing with public statements made by Diefenbaker on U.S.-Canada defense plans and negotiations. Drafted "on a lower level," and handled in a manner that Britain's Manchester Guardian called "a foolish piece of hamfistedness." the release was approved by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and issued after only a 30-minute advance notice to the Canadian Department of External Affairs. Furious at both the content and style of the release, Prime Minister Diefenbaker was a model of outraged dignity before...