Word: foolishnesses
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...occupied University Hall--the only one by a master, possibly helping to inspire his belief that by playing a "civilizing role," "the House system vindicated itself in 1969 as I haven't seen it do before or since." Smithies says the visit was mostly a matter of bravado, "rather foolish. I suppose," but he still seems proud of it--he's supposed to have informed an occupier who called him an administration spy that he had "rather more right to be here than you do." The occupiers voted to expel Smithies, but they allowed him to speak first...
...films, most prominent of which is Louis Malle's Lacombe Lucien Treating the problem of individual responsibility from the perspective of the collaborator instead of the victim. Malle shows that historical events of this magnitude do not intrude on people's lives as moral choices. Therefore, it is foolish to hold people morally accountable for their actions. Lucien's collaboration springs from the peculiarities of his personality and situation, particularities of his personality and situation, particularly his brutality familial resentments and rustic simplicity; given the opportunity, he would just as easily have joined the resistance. Two other recent films continue...
...next day, McGovern, visibly worn from a post-midnight Castro-conducted tour of the city, proposed that one starting point for bettering relations might be an exchange of baseball and basketball teams between the two countries-a suggestion the Cuban Premier immediately embraced. Added McGovern: "The embargo is foolish and self-defeating. The sooner we lift it the better. The next move where Cuba is concerned is up to the U.S." At week's end White House officials said that they welcomed Castro's conciliatory remarks, but that a formal lifting of diplomatic and trade curbs would have...
...disease, characterized by uncontrolled bleeding, threatened the life of the young Czarevitch, made the lives of his father and mother into a nightmare, and helped lead to the fall of the Romanov family. By dealing with the Czar and Czarina as distraught parents, the book transformed them from foolish pawns of history into figures of personal tragedy...
...bred for the Derby. Born in Hot Springs, Ark., while his father, Trainer Moody Jolley, was racing there, LeRoy was a stable veteran at 19, when he received a trainer's license in New York and dropped out of the University of Miami to race full time. Foolish Pleasure was only his second Derby entry in an otherwise solid but unspectacular career. One of the hardest workers in the business, Jolley says: "Most people wonder how a trainer can work seven days a week, 365 days a year. But to me the day just wouldn't seem complete...