Word: foolishnesses
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With a sigh that warns this is going to sound crazy, the celebrated Celtic backcourtman Bob Cousy declares: "In five years everyone will say it. But I'm ready to say it now. Larry Bird is the best player who ever played this foolish game...
...possible that Smash Palace is either very brave or very foolish in its refusal to calculate how its moral is likely to anger feminists. But since it is a movie stamped with integrity in every frame, it seems more likely that it was made with no ideology in mind, just a desire to show how a specific marriage was put asunder. Al and Jacqui may or may not be typical, but they are poignantly particularized people without a drop of soapsuds clinging to them...
Warning signs sprout on trees along the unpaved roads. FROST HEAVES . . . BUMPS . . . CLOSED. Only the foolish travel back roads without chains, winches and, for real safety, four-wheel drive. Brookfield has 76 miles of town road, and only four miles are paved. Citizens who are dissatisfied with the correlation between taxes paid and quality of road surface tend to complain. As a consequence, many road commissioners and some selectmen in Vermont tend to acquire unlisted telephone numbers after about a year of public service...
...jaunty philosophy, but his hands were shaking: "As LeRoy Jolley says, 'You don't play this game in short pants.' " Jolley's chilling line was coined in 1975 on the tragic occasion of the filly Ruffian's match race against Kentucky Derby Winner Foolish Pleasure. Ruffian's right foreleg snapped, and she was destroyed. Jolley trained Foolish Pleasure...
...that Emerson had to harden into a monument, into mere required reading, or worse, the man superseded by Kurt Vonnegut on the course lists. Too many generations came to regard him as a chill, gnomic bore, the best of American aphorists, no doubt, but also the most relentless ("A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," "Traveling is a fool's paradise," "... fired the shot heard round the world," and even the 1960s' dreamy license, "Do your thing"). His fatally worthy subjects (Self-Reliance, Prudence, Friendship) have oppressed generations of eighth-grade English classes. People should probably...