Word: foolishnesses
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...organizations that responded to the dust-up by offering to help him find a qualified woman for his board. "Always be particularly polite to nuns," one little boy I know was told, "because in the end they're going to win anyway, and you're just going to look foolish...
...dumb luck he's used to; this guy's been playing out of the existential rough all his life. "As he always does in comedy, Costner grants an irresistible gleam of gallantry to male mulishness," says TIME's Richard Schickel As the psychologist who can't help loving this foolish fellow, Rene Russo is both knowing and vulnerable, proving beyond doubt that she is modern Hollywood's one true heiress to the screwball tradition. They make 'Tin Cup' rattle very merrily...
...dumb luck he's used to; this guy's been playing out of the existential rough all his life. "As he always does in comedy, Costner grants an irresistible gleam of gallantry to male mulishness," says TIME's Richard Schickel As the psychologist who can't help loving this foolish fellow, Rene Russo is both knowing and vulnerable, proving beyond doubt that she is modern Hollywood's one true heiress to the screwball tradition. They make 'Tin Cup' rattle very merrily...
...whole thing was to remain a surprise. But as word of Dole's plan spread just hours before the speech, the Republican Party began, as one Dole aide put it, "to flip out." G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour thought Dole would be foolish to offend loyal gun owners (and big-time contributors) in order to court a larger audience. And when House Speaker Newt Gingrich got wind of Dole's plan just after breakfast, he was furious. Dole had once promised Gingrich to repeal the ban, and now here he was, promising to uphold it. Gingrich telephoned the campaign and demanded...
Perhaps John Dewey, the greatest American "philosopher of democracy," described a deliberative style of politics best when he insisted that "Majority rule, just as majority rule, is as foolish as its critics charge it with being...The means by which a majority comes to be a majority is the more important thing: antecedent debates, modification of views to meet the opinions of minorities, [and] perfecting processes of inquiry." Writing in the late 1920s, when many authors questioned the viability of democratic processes, Dewey discerned the preconditions for reform: "The essential need, in other words, is the improvement of the methods...