Word: foolishnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of us allow ourselves to be drawn into their self-created dramas. There is a splendid cheekiness of old age about this picture. Its creators seem to be saying. "This is the way we've always made them; this is what we think about the false and foolish world we have inhabited all our lives." The energy of the determinedly unfashionable informs their work, and almost redeems...
...Buddy Holly Story Well all right so I'm being foolish, well all right let people know...It takes fair amount of foolish adulation to really like this movie, but Buddy Holly fans know he had it all over Elvis. If the movie flits from anecodote to funny line to endearing scene with only the most superficial transitions the music (not vintage BH but good reproductions) holds it together. Buddy Holly was the James Dean of rock'n'roll...
...sphere of public opinion Harvard is a whale," Bohstedt said, add- ing that by following its current investment policy Harvard is "like a whale trying to act like an ostrich, which looks foolish and evasive...
...daughters and their men living foolish lives of romance and sentiment and snobbery. I see...the younger generation, turning from their romance and sentiment and snobbery to money and comfort and hard common sense...
...possible for a man to take time off from College and not end up in a rice paddy carrying an M-16, there was a pervasive feeling in the early years of the decade--especially among the strongly pre-professional--that leave-taking displayed some kind of weakness or foolish vacillation. Deborah Hughes-Hallet, who has taught math and advised undergraduates in the sciences since 1969, says that even now, when she suggests that undecided students take leaves of absence, "they almost invariably draw themselves up to their full height and say, 'I'm not like that...