Word: silliest
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Europeans are appalled. "It's the silliest financial discipline the U.S. could adopt," says former Dutch Treasury Official Coenrad J. Oort. Many private-sector American economists are aghast. Says Michael Evans, who heads his own economic consulting firm in Washington, B.C.: "There were periodic crashes in which banks collapsed during more than 50 years of the gold standard. I don't think that is what anyone wants." Yet to the astonishment of nearly everyone, important members of Congress continue to give serious thought to the idea of putting the U.S. back on some form of the gold standard...
...decade ago, when Wylie first heard about the efforts of Amnesty International to free "prisoners of conscience," he said he thought it was "the silliest thing I ever heard. How could letters affect some dictator half a world away...
...awful lot going for it even before the lights go down. Audiences are ready to forgive far more than in other forms; they want to feel naive. People still sigh when they see Olivier in Wuthering Heights speak some desperately improbable lines, and act out one of the silliest (ah, but oh so wonderful) endings in screen history. The awkward moments, the stutters and stumbles, the slow buildup of courage, all add to the movie. Rarely does a director find a more willing audience. There probably isn't a more universal human desire than to live life constantly...
Even Dangerfield's silliest gags have the sting of truth. How accurate they may be about his own life is another matter. He talks about "comedic license," but whether he is doing a shotgun discourse on marriage or about growing up Jewish and poor in a section of New York City that is well-off and Waspy, he seems to be drawing from deep roots. Rodney was Jacob Cohen when the neighborhood kids had names "like Marianne and Biff." When they were on the tennis courts, he was delivering groceries. He started writing gags when...