Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agreeing with Raubinger's charge that any evaluation of high schools in terms of the Merit winners and semi-finalists they produce is "foolish," Wilbur J. Bender, Dean of Admissions, said he entirely supported the view that national testing should not determine college placement...
...should, however, be just as clear that the accomplishments of the Democratic senators will be of a limited nature. The Department of State cannot shift to the Capitol and it would be foolish to expect any major changes in American policy, if only because on most issues there is only a limited amount of basic disagreement...
...Ebert, general manager of West Berlin's Municipal Opera, superbly handled his cast and particularly the Met's often heavy-footed chorus, achieved some stunning, stylized patterns reminiscent of Bayreuth. Highly effective were the glowingly expressionistic sets by German Designer Caspar Neher, but his costumes were merely foolish: mauve, mustard, rose and lavender, suitable for a Todd A-O musical version of the Wars of the Roses. If Designer Neher tried to follow the romantic music by being deliberately unrealistic, he spoiled his effect with just enough realistic touches, as when platoons of soldiers in what looked like...
...Sometimes a man is ... a born scoundrel-like Stanford White*-and upon him the world lavishes censure and dispraise; but he is only obeying the law of his nature. [The human race] did not invent itself, and it had nothing to do with the planning of its weak and foolish character...
...heat-or lack of it-but the humidity; in a mystifying effort, the record makers have dubbed in sounds of cheetering sea gulls and the tumbling waves of "a mythical Malibu." The Sea-Around-Us effect is unfortunate only because what comes filtering through the combers-in These Foolish Things and I'll Remember April-seems to be a fine and lacily fanciful cocktail piano...