Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spectacle pretends to justify itself, of course. Throughout the massacre, dumb, stupid Honus wanders in a daze, finally coming to recognize the criminality of American imperialism and the unchecked evil that is the Army to which he has pledged his loyalty. The sequence ends with Honus vomiting in disgust, while, for some unfathomable reason, the focus blurs to spare us this ultimate indignity...
...have most of us dealt with the young on the campuses today-either our children or our students-and we probably share the same mixed view of their undoubted ability, their stupid and dangerous excesses, and their sometimes prophetic vision. On their side, though, is time. They will, in fact, inherit the earth, or at least our chunk of it; they will, in fact, soon vote. And they would, undoubtedly, give allegiance to a President who did what I have just suggested. So would many of their compatriots in our restless Indochina armed forces. And so would the millions...
...develop ideas about its subject. It lacks any stylistic will to lay things open, to cut apart fictional characters or real societies so we can see better what they are made of. The Cuban Revolution, for example, is presented as the hero's "revenge on the stupid Cuban bourgoisie-everything I don't want to be." It has no direct presence in his life; he is always buffered from it by this sense or that feeling. Even when the Cuban legal system intervenes in his life, and puts him on trial for rape. Alea presents the whole situation through...
Writer Malcolm considers togetherness "vulgar and stupid," but she warns that feminism "may be an even more invidious cause of unhappiness and discontent." It may well be, if some of its extreme tenets are adopted. But chances are that society will heed only the movement's legitimate demands. All the rest-motivated by what Helen Lawrenson calls the "splenetic frenzy of hatred for men" voiced by "these sick, silly creatures"-is likely to remain unacceptable to all but the sickest and the silliest...
...have stayed in jail and I have stayed stupid, and I have stayed a child while I have watched your world grow up, and then I look at the things that you do and I don't understand. Most of the people at the ranch that you call the family were just people that you did not want, people that were alongside the road; I took them up on my garbage dump and I told them this: that in love there is no wrong...