Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hugh A. Stubbins, Jr. '35, architect for the new Center, presenting his conception of the ideal theatre, asserted, "I think we've solved a problem that the drama people in New York said couldn't be solved. We were foolish enough to try it, and we have succeeded." Stubbins has designed plans for the first theatre to contain both a proscenium and a theatre in the round...
...should definitely be retained. The medium and high-rental suites will enable the Houses to meet their financial requirements by letting those who can afford it shoulder most of the burden. This "soak-the-rich" policy has long been Harvard's unofficial attitude toward the problem, and it seems foolish, just because of uniform, modern Quincy House, to let thirty years of hypocrisy go down the drain...
...easy as it is to conclude that the university faculty exists to promote scholarship, it would be foolish to suppose that more than a small minority of its patrons, adult or younger, either seek or receive training in serious research. Scholarship has always been an important but esoteric pursuit confined to a few deviants...
That Edwin Booth is never for a moment valid stage biography is much more easily excused than that it is almost everywhere so resolute a bore. Whether or not theater folk are to achieve reality, they should at least create effects. Had Edwin Booth, however foolish, recaptured something high-bustedly gaudy, had John Wilkes provoked hisses or Edwin aroused huzzahs, had Shakespeare been spoken or even ranted well, a bad play might have proved a pleasant romp. But despite the dress-up and the makeup, there is virtually no make-believe. On an all-purpose set where anything could happen...
...evaluate India's second five-year plan on the basis of what we outlined at the start, rather than what is actually being done, is foolish--but it is the basis of most outside criticism...