Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said after reading a pretty bad one, "tell me, I'll change it around." No one protested. "Look," I argued, "a poem isn't a sacred thing. If you don't like something in a poem, even if it's by William Shakespeare, you should say it's stupid. Don't be afraid to hurt the poem. It's not something you simply hold up to the light and investigate. It's an experience you share with the poet." There was a long silence. Girls in wet jackets and boys with gawky legs looked...
...Stupid Bowlers. Fitzpatrick won his Pulitzer for a first-person, 1,500-word account of S.D.S. Weathermen on the rampage last fall in Chicago. "I got the story because I can run like a scared antelope when I have to," he says. "I ran five miles with those kids that night, and I kept up with them." After the running, he really had to pour on the steam, banging out some ten pages against a deadline only 40 minutes away, finishing so close to it that he did not even have a chance to read the story over...
...chairman was at least half right. As a cub reporter on the Toledo Blade in 1957, Fitzpatrick freelanced a story for a competing paper. He was fired. At his next job, in Lima, Ohio, he recalls that "I was writing a column in which I said that bowling was stupid and that bowlers were stupid. The publisher told me I couldn't say that any more. So the next morning, I wrote another column saying how stupid I thought bowlers were." Again he was fired...
Within each of these grandiose categories, Kelman outlines a few even more stereotyped characters. The SDS members are frequently linked with words like "Nazi" or "kill." Their smiles are like "slime" and they are forever talking of shooting Kelman. The moderates are simply too stupid to see through any of the SDS rhetoric. And so they follow mindlessly along, while Kelman wails in the background...
...epithets reserved for aimless violence. But the composition of the crowd-high school kids and street people-does re-inforce a notion that gained strength with the April 15 riot: These people are willing and ready to defy cops-and on vaguely political grounds. They may be stupid about it: but they want action, not talk. Not a startling conclusion, perhaps, but we would do well to remember that in Berkeley and Santa Barbara it has been these people, not students, who have fought cops most violently. If the traditional migration of trends holds true...