Word: foolishnesses
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...bring people in to be interviewed who might not have been found by the old procedure. One more kind of personal thing since you brought it up. Was my being a women a factor in my appointment. Well I think it probably was, I think I would be foolish to deny that Do I feel terrible about that. Will no it's important for this school to have some women here. I would not have liked to have been hired just because I was a woman, I would not like to feel that somehow I was inferior to my peers...
...mandating polygraph exams to track down the source. The order could have subjected most of Reagan's top associates to lie-detector tests. At least one Cabinet resignation was threatened. "It was a black day around here," says a White House aide. Administration "pragmatists" intervened to get the foolish scheme canceled. Reagan was surprised by all the brouhaha: when he signed the sweeping order, he said, he had not realized that Secretary of State George Shultz, for instance, might be affected. "That order was not very complicated," says an aide with unusual bluntness. "Anybody could understand what it meant...
...turned cinematic Tarzan (twelve movies); in Acapulco, Mexico. "They gave me a G-string," he claimed of his MGM bosses, "and said, 'Can you climb a tree?'" Weissmuller, the archetypal Hollywood hunk, led an extravagantly untidy personal life highlighted by five failed marriages and a portfolio of foolish business ventures...
Fellini is not overly sentimental or insistent on this point; he is mostly having too much fun with the giddy life of the voyage. Much of the amusement has to do with unfortunate encounters between the foolish passengers, who like to believe that they have transcended the instinctual life, and the lower animal kingdom. There is, for example, the seagull that invades the dining salon, flapping everyone into hysteria. Then there is the matter of the Emir's pet rhinoceros, languishing in the hold and giving off a most unpleasant stench. Seasick, any reasonable person might suppose; lovesick...
Such a policy is misguided on two counts. As the situation in El Salvador reveals, governments under siege have trouble maintaining open societies and often sacrifice civil liberties in turn for survival. In addition, it would be foolish to think that even if Nicaraguan policies did finally meet with U.S. approval the Contras would stop fighting. Most of these groups, peopled by members of Somoza's National Guards, do not seek the improvement of Nicaraguan society according to U.S. standards but control of that society itself. They will neither give their U.S. arms back to their donors or stop using...