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...unthinkable that this country would allow its attention to be diverted from the crucial issues generated by an election year and focus instead on the shenanigans of the President's foolish brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 25, 1980 | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...just talked to Wagner himself. "You hear that goddam offer," Jordan said angrily. "I told him to go to hell." Then he stopped and said, "I probably shouldn't have said it." Strauss assured him he had said exactly the right thing, that the proposal was foolish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: View from the Carter Bunker | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...diplomat takes a dun view of the American-led boycott, but insists that he is "totally committed" to having the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. For his part, Killanin was a good deal more acerbic about President Carter's campaign to trip up the Moscow Games. Also foolish. He maintained that if the program had included football and baseball, the Americans would have participated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Your Marx, Get Set, Go! | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

...leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of a people. There are few men so foolish; hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: They Thought They Were Better | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

Titus Andronicus (William Hutt), doughtiest general of the Roman state, has come home with his Gothic captives. Turning aside the proffered imperial crown, he bestows it on Saturninus (Jack Wetherall), an odious opportunist though royal in lineage. Titus prefigures Lear's foolish error in dividing up his kingdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Marathon Time at Stratford | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

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