Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something of a Richardist but more of an entertainer. His hero-modern, brisk, amused-is James Bond in a baldric, a lewd, shrewd "clerk" who undertakes secret missions for the king. Seen through his eyes, Richard comes off as a reasonably decent Renaissance statesman, astute in the chancellery but stupid in the field...
...contracts his methods and his theory with those of the oppressors. His use of cooperation vs. their use of conquest, the oppressor's need for unity vs. the oppressor's need for divisiveness, organization vs. manipulation, and cultural synthesis vs. cultural invasion. He sees oppressors as being anything but stupid and stresses the necessity for knowing their methods...
Psychiatric assumptions underlie much of the book. "Adults demand that children understand what they're trying to say," Betsy Drake points out, "but too often they interpret a child's most serious moments as stupid or cute or funny. So children, in self-defense, learn to play for the laugh. It's a style of craziness, a style of survival, a style of distancing. I learned this style as a child but I'm not really impressed with my comic or ironic side. I'd much rather write straight out of despair...
...your considered opinion that I should remain seated during the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner") and followed it up with a statement to the press: "I feel she had to be put in her place. There is always hope she may learn some manners. She is a stupid woman. If she is going to shout her mouth off like that, she is bound to get shouted at." In reply, Mrs. Mitchell took her cue from Jimmy Durante. She said: "He just probably wanted...
...large increase in the number of female students, he wrote, "it is quite likely...that the pool of women applicants would fail to rise sufficiently rapidly to allow such a change without diminishing the quality of our students." Has Bok any basis for his assumption that women are more stupid than men? If not, he should give equal attention and support to the education of men and women...