Word: foolishnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hell not?' " There was a refreshing innocence, a kind of bravery in that attitude, especially as the power of the Western myth dimmed. His heroes were not like Hemingway's. They did not have grace under pressure; they had instead a stubbornness -foolish, willful and glorious-when they were caught between the rock and the hard place. We could not forget Wayne if we tried. Those images of a big man etched against the big Western sky were part of the experience of growing up in America in the past half-century...
...University policy makes his solicitude for that same community's intellectual freedom seem hollow. Bok has made a false distinction between free academic expression and free expression about how the University is run. It seems that when the community expresses itself freely about university governance, it is indulging in foolish distractions. Speaking of other universities, and obliquely of Harvard, Bok says that efforts to "use the institution as an instrument to influence political disputes...have weakened universities abroad by distracting their members from teaching and learning...
...conventional car, and by utilizing available components achieved fuel consumption of 57.2 to 80 m.p.g. Meanwhile, in another story, you describe how carmakers are throwing away valuable time and resources on developing a dashboard that talks. The idea that the industry cannot develop a more efficient car is foolish. Even the Moodymobile can accelerate faster than the mossbacks in Detroit...
Adults, on the whole, are solemn. The transition from seriousness to solemnity occurs in adolescence, a period in which nature, for reasons of her own, plunges people into foolish frivolity. During this period the organism struggles to regain dignity by recovering childhood's genius for seriousness. It is usually a hopeless cause...
...these men who were there to take your husband away, perhaps to his death? How could you be so forgiving, so decent to them?" Magda only replied: "What are you talking about? It was dinnertime ... we were all hungry. The food was ready. What do you mean by such foolish words as 'forgiving' and 'decent'?" For her there was no ethical struggle: a hungry man was a hungry...