Word: foolishnesses
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...zany creature that the public saw, all that campy, trivial bluster, was real enough in its way, it was far from the substance of her deeper glow," writes Myra Friedman in Buried Alive (Morrow; $7.95). "The hysteria, the extravagance, and the foolish noise were a barren fuss embraced by barren hearts, and it was a lost child who would kick up such rubbish to gain entrance into rooms so empty." Written with a sympathetic intelligence, at times fiercely lyrical, Buried Alive is an honest book about Joplin the idol and Joplin the victim in the frantic, manic disarray of rock...
...been aborted are not considered to be human beings, strikes me as ridiculous. If our society has decided that a human fetus is no more than a scrap of tissue attached to a woman's body, and therefore sanctions its removal at her whim, then surely it is foolish to become outraged by experiments performed on it, any more than it makes sense to become outraged about an experiment performed on an excised tumor...
...will was excusable, if not justifiable. Most had survived a crush through eight small turnstiles at which there was no separation between people who had tickets and people who didn't--fences were torn down; cops were attacked, and finally the whole crowd shoved toothpaste tube-style past any foolish authority that might have attempted to control it. The mob psychology was amalgamated Woodstock in perversion: we are all one and no one is going to stand in our way. The music belongs to the people...
Hamilton became angry. "The people, the people, the people!" he said. "Without the Government, the people are a myth invented by you and Tom Paine as a basis for your foolish notions of an agrarian democracy. The myth became horrifying reality in Paris in 1789. You approved that Revolution, Tom, and I guess you must have approved its ideological successor in Russia...
...they shied from admitting that art was what they found. Here is what would happen: you enter the exhibit and the first thing you see is a green flashing light. You automatically start to go in the direction it points, and then you realize with a foolish feeling gulp that this is the exhibit you came to see. You wonder if you have been made the butt of a fast one. And plenty were plainly wondering. It was as if a whole system of patterned responses had been planted in everybody's brain. One such response was pitched...