Word: idiotically
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...Coens run out of jabs at Wall Street and turn instead to punning silver screen sappy romance. Amy Archer (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who once talked fast and moved like a journalists with a mission, is reduced to pathetic dependence on the love of Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins), the idiot and CEO proxy she is sent to investigate...
...three weeks to solve properly, he'll want it done in two days. It's very difficult for a quant who thinks of himself as a Ph.D. from a top-notch school and comes to Wall Street, and a high school dropout screams at him and calls him an idiot." His colleague, an engineer, agrees: "Many times, what your boss is saying is just hilarious. It's wrong, you know; mathematically it makes no sense. You can't even say, 'Look, you don't know what you're talking about...
...encourages petulant passivity and other-directedness. Some of the most important virtues (self-discipline, courage, responsibility) require self- abnegation -- and nothing is further from the spirit of an age that regards self-abnegation as an offense against self-fulfillment, that pervasive American pseudo virtue that took root in the idiot '60s and killed all the healthy plants around...
...women will be able to "take back the night" completely. Individual prudence and responsibility will have to take up the slack. Paglia blasts feminists for blinding women to the this simple fact. "A girl who goes upstairs alone with a brother at a fraternity party is an idiot," She writes. "Feminists call this 'blaming the victim.' I call it common sense...
...Lincoln in Illinois was one of three plays to win Pulitzer Prizes for author Robert E. Sherwood during a five-year span. (The others were Idiot's Delight, a 1936 comedic outcry against the forces breeding World War II, and There Shall Be No Night, a 1940 tragedy about the invasion of Finland.) A commercial success, Abe Lincoln ran more than a year. For its time, an era of patriotic fervor verging on hagiography toward national leaders, it is daringly candid...