Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that second thought should be, that to force all upper-classmen into House rooms will only make a certain segment of the student body unhappy and make the rest of it uncomfortable. By lucky necessity, students got their rightful way with the University this year, and it is foolish, when the necessity is gone, for the attendant privileges and advantages to go with it. There is no reason that the University should not continue and make permanent its present policy of permitting reasonable numbers of men to live outside the Houses...
Michael Parish may be weak and a little foolish, a man fixed by his background and fleeced by his women. But Lawyer-Novelist Auchincloss (The Great World and Timothy Colt, Sybil) pleads his case effectively. He also secures his own expanding niche in American letters, where he suavely dissects the outwardly successful failures and where, in the Fitzgerald tradition, the rich boy never gets off Scott free...
Dulles went on to his most provocative statement: "If there were a cease-fire in the area which seemed to be reasonably dependable, I think it would be foolish to keep these large forces on these islands. We thought it was rather foolish to put them there, and, as I say, if there were a ceasefire, it would be our judgment, military judgment, even, that it would not be wise or prudent to keep them there." Was there, then, a possibility of important changes in U.S. policy if there was some "give" on the Communist side? Answered Dulles...
Promotion. "It is neither an overgeneralization nor an oversimplification to state that in the faculties of major universities in the United States today, the evaluation of performance is based almost exclusively on publication." Result: a neglect of what teachers are hired for-teaching-and "a great deal of foolish and unnecessary research . . . undertaken by men who bring to their investigations neither talent nor interest." The ambitious academician's sole aim is to accumulate published titles, as a young actor squirrels away television credits. Title-squirreling pays off: "Success is likely to come to the man who has learned...
Choi had no chance to do anything foolish. He was aboard the LVT that swamped with eight Chinese, Japanese and Korean newsmen aboard in a high sea off Quemoy's Liaolo Beach. At week's end the Chinese Nationalists listed him as missing. Newsman Choi's last words before going over the side: "I can't swim very well...