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Word: stupid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suit against the state and federal governments. Alvin Duskin, a San Francisco clothing manufacturer and environmental crusader, placed full-page ads blasting the scheme in the San Francisco Chronicle and Wall Street Journal. Ecologist Kenneth E.F. Watt of the University of California at Davis blasted the electorate. "People are stupid," he fumed. "The public almost invariably votes the wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Quenching California's Thirst | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

...sees it, belittles family life and offends women in their roles as wives and mothers. Women resent Arthur Godfrey's pitch for Axion, she believes, because it talks down to them. As for Ultra Brite's kiss-throwing commercials, she says: "Advertisers must think that women are stupid if they are to believe that a toothpaste will bring sex appeal." Other ads that the women found vexing included some for Crest toothpaste, Bold detergent, Dove soap, Colgate 100 mouthwash, Punch detergent, Ajax cleaner and Scope mouthwash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Liberating Women | 6/15/1970 | See Source »

...supporting the Provisional Revolutionary Government in South Vietnam, the American anti-war movement will be inviting charges that it is betraying American soldiers in the field. The movement has survived these attacks in the past, and it will survive them again. The people of this country are not stupid, and they can see easily enough who is responsible for the fact that Americans are being shot at and killed in Vietnam. Government apologies have long tried to argue that the blame for the American deaths should be placed not on the men who sent Americans to die in Vietnam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Support the NLF | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

...first to realize that. I'm learning a tremendous amount. I've got to know where the experts are, and I've got to know how to pull it out of them and get it before the President. Sometimes it helps to be uneducated, so you can ask stupid questions that need to be asked and get some hard answers. Questions like 'Do we have to do this at all?' and 'Why can't the states do this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: How Nixon's White House Works | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

...group of Women's Liberation activists and Gay Liberation homosexuals invaded the convention hall. After a tussle with one member of Women's Lib, an eminent Boston psychiatrist said: "This lack of discipline is disgusting." He spot-diagnosed the woman as "a paranoid fool and a stupid bitch." Another woman took the floor and began relating her psychiatric history. "The doctor likened me to a borderline schizophrenic " she cried in indignation. A psychiatrist in the audience called: "You're past the borderline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Paranoia | 5/25/1970 | See Source »

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