Word: foolishnesses
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...solution--and this more a guideline than a rule--has come from using the wisdom of my ghostly Hollis roommate, R.W. Emerson himself. We know how he favored independence and how he wasn't afraid to be creatively inconsistent. As he said (probably around fall term?), "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...
...adhere to that philosophy during the Terrible Twos, it doesn't surprise your kids if you stick with it through the ticklish questions of sex, drugs and alcohol. It's at these times that children are uppity enough to ask, and some parents are foolish enough to reveal, what they did as adolescents. This is a big mistake in the drug wars. I asked myself: "Did hypocrisy matter when Courtney was little?" Absolutely not. Without any reference to my own early years of experimenting with electricity, I insisted that she not stick her curious fingers into electric sockets...
...tell you that Jewell has lashed out at all the wrong people. I am the newspaper reporter portrayed by actor Dennis Franz in Caught in the Crossfire, a 1994 NBC-TV movie about my foolish attempt to help the FBI in an investigation of organized crime. Jewell is angry with the media, but it is entirely possible that if it had not been for the media's interest in his story, a frustrated FBI, unable to find any other suspects, would have referred his case to the U.S. Attorney. Jewell could have been indicted and compelled to prove his innocence...
...government's anti-Cuban measures and restrictions are as foolish as they are hypocritical. Cuba poses absolutely no security threat to the U.S. and is not even sponsoring revolutions in other Third World nations. Although the U.S. would like to see Castro toppled and replaced by a more democratic, and more importantly, more capitalist government, official embargoes and covert C.I.A. sponsored sabotage haven't worked for more than 30 years. Why will these efforts be effective now? The laws that ban ordinary contact, such as visits, between Cubans and Americans serve no rational purpose...
...resume. But for my editor, who had no way of knowing how my words had been distorted, the breach of trust cut far deeper. In an industry where people make their living by sleight of tongue, I had used words in a public forum to make his magazine look foolish. And words, once flung into that forum, can cause tremendous pain...