Word: foolishnesses
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...would have been foolish to have spent "25percent of my time on the problems of one mancompared to 100 percent of my time on the problemsof 220 million," Ford said...
...best of spirits when he wrote A Handful of Dust. He poured his grief at the dissolution of his first marriage into this tale of how dimly amoral Brenda Last cuckolded her dimly moral husband Tony. Waugh managed to cast a cold, wickedly glittering eye on these foolish innocents, and to write about them with bitter, controlled irony. Both suppressing and drawing upon fury and bathos, he produced a masterpiece...
Reagan was asked after his arrival in Helsinki if he thought the Panama debacle made the U.S. appear foolish. "I don't feel that way," he said. But almost everyone else does, including many inside the Administration...
...trying to make this case, it may seem like an unnecessary, self-imposed handicap to start off with a quote from The Greening of America, the definitive expression of the 1960s zeitgeist and possibly the most foolish book ever to be serialized in The New Yorker and debated on the New York Times op-ed page (though that is a bold claim). But just 18 years ago, a book rhapsodizing about the pleasures of getting high got the kind of serious attention reserved more recently for The Fate of the Earth and The Closing of the American Mind. This...
...close observers of New York's escalating tabloid war, Kalikow's choice was either foolish or inspired. At 36, Amsterdam has impressive credentials, but they are largely in magazine journalism. After editing stints at New Jersey Monthly, New Times, New York and American Lawyer, she made her reputation as founding editor of Manhattan,inc., which broke new ground in 1984 with literate profiles of corporate raiders, high-powered lawyers and their ilk -- not the sort of thing one finds in the pages of the Post...