Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...community person" is going to look upon the willful discarding of one's sole protection against the draft as anything but stupid and suspicious is absurd. Even if they don't realize the manifold implications for themselves and their sons, how can they be expected to unite with a rash, unthinking student who says he hates war but throws away his chance to get out of it! How can they think anything about such a student but, "He's crazy...
...will think I'm a square." It was a fair fret: they did. Suddenly Americans saw her, says Carol Burnett, as "Gwendolyn Goody Two-shoes." Julie began to worry about being typecast, doomed to be always the governess, never the mistress. She saw the humor in the sudden rash of bumper stickers: MARY POPPINS is A JUNKIE (her friend Mike Nichols affixed one to her car), but it didn't console her much at all. It was largely in an effort to change the image that Julie took on a straight role in The Americanization of Emily...
...When he is told that it stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the boy wants to know whether the Italians have anything like it. "Sure," replies Cooper. "We have the Mothers and Fathers' Italian Association-the M.A.F.I.A." Another case in point is the rash of Polish jokes ("Why won't they let a Pole swim in Lake Michigan? Because he'll leave a ring"), which began almost underground but now venture into the light. Explains Comic Phyllis Diller: "If it's too close to the truth, it isn't funny...
...Fortune Cookie. Director Billy Wilder has taken the very rash risk in this film of spiking his big gun. In Cookie he keeps Jack Lemmon, a funnyman-in-motion who lacks the instincts of a sit-down comedian, sitting in a wheelchair that makes him seem foolish but never funny. With Lemmon immobilized, only a miracle could save the show from being as sedative as Wilder's last picture, Kiss Me, Stupid. Fortunately, something like a miracle is at hand: Walter Matthau. A magnificent comic actor too long misused as a minor cinemenace, Matthau last year played such...
...Usage in 1958, wanted "to do for the America of 1960 what Fowler had done for the England of 1926," but he died short of his goal five years later. His publishers, stuck with two-thirds of a book, surrendered it to a committee for completion. It was a rash decision, as General Motors' Charles F. Kettering could have told them. "If you want to kill any idea in the world today," he once said, "get a committee working on it." This committee was headed by Jacques Barzun, Columbia University's dean of faculty, who asked four-educators...