Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reeves also invited selected delegates and other conventioneers to keep diaries, and the material selected from these forms the thread of continuity through what is basically a stream of anecdotes. Thus the diarists are stuck with stupid appellatives--Clare Smith, a 17 year old high school student from Ohio, becomes The Youngest Delegate; Fritz Efaw, an ex-MIT student now living abroad, becomes The Draft Dodger Delegate; Dick Celeste, Ohio's lieutenant-governor on the way up, becomes The Young Pol. And friends, one may be assured that after over 200 pages and the deaths of a lot of trees...
...Thou shalt not schedule any courses before ten in the morning. What are you, stupid? Anything before ten is closer to last night than this morning. That takes care of eight and nine...
...trick, damn it, an evil plot to make someone around here look stupid. Like me. But it won't work, because you can't intimidate one who has eaten mystery meat for six years now so easily...
Shall we engage in another unnecessary and stupid war or build needed schools...
...Georges Perec: "We reject the noble image of literature as a divine inspiration. In our view, language is a kind of putty that we can shape." Among the stranger shapes issuing from the OuLiPo factory are palindromes-words or statements that read identically backward and forward. "Straw? No, too stupid a fad. I put soot on warts," is elementary to an OuLiPo member. Perec has produced Ou LiPo's longest palindrome: a 5,000-letter treatise-on palindromes. Other OuLiPoian inventions are equally astonishing. Poet Jean Lescure's N (or V) +7 formula takes the noun or verb...