Word: foolishness
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LITTLE OWL, by Reiner Zimnik, illustrated by Hanne Axmann (Atheneum; $3.50), is a translation from German of a tale about a peeping-owl. The illustrations convey with charm and mystery a mocking view of the foolish fears that isolate adults from the pleasant world of children and small animals...
...truly ashamed that Mr. Nehru has had the bad grace to voice these sentiments, considering the mammoth help America is pouring into India so graciously and unstintingly, with ''no strings attached." We realize perfectly well that if America so wished, it could have, justifiably, torn our foolish foreign policy to shreds before granting...
...minority government of Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and to force new elections. One of the reasons Pearson did not win power in last June's elections was his failure to get Lesage's full support in Quebec. Following the provincial idea that it is politically foolish for a French Canadian leader to mix in a federal fight. Lesage sat the election out; 26 Quebec seats that might have tipped the national balance to the Liberals went to the funny-money Social Credit party of a demagogic auto dealer named Real Caouette. On the strength of his present...
...four-page publication was devoted completely to opposition of the new program and asking for a change in Williams' housing "from within the fraternity system." It maintained that it would be foolish to place fraternities under the complete control of the college when better academic standards and student-faculty relations could be achieved with the status...
Howe went on to say that the amendments were "needless and foolish," but predicted they would prove meaningless "in practice...