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Anthropologist Robin Fox's conclusions about the struggle for control of the society [Sept. 22] are basically sound, but he is wrong when he says that the aspiration among modern women to jobs in the marketplace is a foolish deviation from the norm. Evolution itself is a deviation from the norm. If men and women are not allowed to evolve and change, our society will stagnate...
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Edward J. Griffin, deputy fire chief yesterday termed the false alarm "foolish and avoidable," adding that after one of the recent incidents, he asked University officials to provide all personnel with written instructions on how to avoid triggering smoke detectors...
...recalled that on June 11, when he told Civiletti that Billy Carter had admitted receiving $220,000 from the Libyans, the Attorney General had ordered him to "wait ten days and see what happens." Six days later, as Civiletti has said, he warned the President that his brother was "foolish" for not registering as a foreign agent (Billy finally did so on July...
...clergy clowns find a theological justification for their unusual ministry in the injunction of St. Paul to the Corinthians to become "fools for Christ's sake" because God has "made foolish the wisdom of the world." They discern multilayered analogies between the clown and Christ: the clown's joy in living and mimed delight in simple things, like the scent of a flower, for instance, recall Jesus' command to "consider the lilies of the field, how they grow." The simplicity and childlike persistence of the clown can have a special meaning for Christians. "The clown refuses...