Word: foolishnesses
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...feel we have to talk to women to find outwho's interested. It's not official, but it wouldbe foolish to not move forward at all and do itall in three or four days," said Fly PunchmasterWalter E.B. Sipe '95, who is in charge of theclub's fall membership drive...
...faces appeared at windows around the courtyard, curious about the ruckus but not foolish enough to raise their windows in the storm. We finally stopped and fought our way indoors, grinning ear to ear with spontaneity and the conviction that we had done our share to preserve the spirit of Old Eliot...
Where these people have been all semester is anybody's guess--perhaps sleeping in, or working on other classes, perhaps simply spending the hour laughing at the saps who were foolish enough to actually show up to class. After a few minutes of "review," there is little doubt that whatever they were doing, their absence will scarcely make a dent in their performance...
...wealthy mid-Americans in 1907 are long dead and undefended. Health faddists are still abundant and deserving of mockery, but they wear Lycra now, and their spas offer aromatherapy, Nautilus machines and biofeedback. They won't recognize themselves in Boyle's mirror. The author's characters are self-evidently foolish -- the case does not need 476 pages of proving -- and so two-dimensional that there is no question of caring about them as if they had real blood and real pain. Which leaves a reader of Boyle's cheerful and inoffensive tale asking the deadliest of questions: So what...
...Machiavelli's assertion, asks to be judged by the toughest standard imaginable. Throughout the campaign, Clinton routinely promised a first 100 days reminiscent of Franklin Roosevelt's action-filled three-month push to lift America from the Great Depression. No matter that the F.D.R. yardstick is arbitrary -- and even foolish given the blessed lack of a galvanizing crisis like the one America faced in 1933. "I think it's been a very productive 100 days . . . we've made terrific progress," White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said last Wednesday, eight days shy of the mark and a few hours...