Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have reached agreements that are enforceable. That is, where there is good faith on both sides, demonstrated good faith. Now after that happens, then I would expect long-range programs . . . and expenditures to come down markedly. But until the world can feel safer, I can think of nothing more foolish than to weaken our defensive structure...
Died. Ralph Barton Perry, 80, gaunt, horn-rimmed humanist and longtime (1913-46) professor of philosophy at Harvard, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1936 for The Thought and Character of William James; near Boston. A liberal, individualist and internationalist. Philosopher Perry rejected as "presumptuous and foolish" the notion of God as "a kindly indulgence at the seat of cosmic control," was alternately gloomy and optimistic about the U.S.'s future, concluded that its strength lies in its bedrock foundation of puritanism and democracy...
...perplexing problems that focus upon its responsibilities in a world society, and if we now proceed to question whether the Business School is providing a framework adequate to meeting these new problems it is not because we think the Business School is bad (that would indeed be foolish), but because it could be so much better...
They advocate discontinuance of the special commission's activities when its present term expires on Feb. 1, contending that "it would be foolish, if not illegal, to extend the life of the commission" since "the United States Supreme Court has held that the states cannot legislate in the field of subversive activities because this would conflict with existing federal laws...
Shaking out the slush from our shoes (we refuse to admit defeat by wearing boots), we pondered the 19th century's foolish sentimentality and unrealism. Snow's truer character lay revealed in Ukichiro Nakaya's authoritative "Snow Crystals." Besides the run-of-the-mill hexagonal-plane dendritic form crystals, there are spatial dendritic, pyramid and columnar, bullet, needle and graupel types, to mention a handful. Of especial interest was the Tsuzumi type, so named because of its resemblance to a Tsuzumi, a Japanese tom-tom. It is a hard crystal to describe, but picture a Tsuzumi and you nearly have...