Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half years here to come to grips with my own mortality, to grow comfortable with the thought that Harvard could not make me over into something I had once desired, but now fear. I like to think it has not changed me, but that, of course, is foolish--I have gained so much from my time here, from the people I have met and the lessons I have learned, occasionally from professors. I cannot be bitter. Still, I am anxious about what may happen to so many people here--the students and administrators and professors that this institution runs...
...enforcing the code for the first time since it was adopted in August 1977. "It is our contention that these kinds of things won't happen again," declared Troy, in a telephone interview from his home in Chula Vista, Calif. "If it does, either the swimmers are pretty foolish or we have a code that's unenforceable...
...cultists seriously. The film follows a college student on the day Dean died, follows him through his torment over Dean's death which eventually leads him to leave school and his superficial friends. But on the way Bridges seems to keep insisting that, hey, didn't these people act foolish--he focuses on the superficial actions of the characters. His main character expresses his torment by driving to a river, covering himself with dirt, and holding a seance complete with an Academy Award made of mud. His idiocy is completed when he takes a dog's barking as a sign...
...have got a person imprisoned or executed a few years ago. One of the first essentials has been to deprogram the deeply rooted suspicion of things foreign. Hence the Kwangming Daily's recent line: "It is completely un-Marxist to adopt the foolish attitude of being complacent and arrogant and of uncritically excluding foreign science, technology and culture. We advocate learning from the strong points of all nations...
...hurt: I felt foolish: I was being made fun of and I didn't deserve it." Walters told a crowd of 225 at the Law School Forum in reference to the Saturday Night Live parody of her speech impediment...