Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chicago and University Hall shared the large similarity of being radicalizing experiences for many left liberals. Police overreacted with great (and, for them, tactically stupid) bravura. Not only that, but the issues involved at Chicago and Harvard, were, in the first instance, liberal ones, and, in the second, issues that liberals could endorse in theory if not in practice...
...only last year, and it was clearly influenced by this experience. If only he had been given an extra week of work, Bernstein could probably have produced a memorable performance. The fact that he didn't can be traced to the basic fault of this Beethoven Festival: the incredibly stupid idea that an orchestra can produce a completely different concert every night for a week...
...profligate-turned-ascetic in The Magician of Lublin is a God who "revealed Himself to no one [and] gave no indications of what was permitted or forbidden." This deus absconditus appears in other stories as well. In "A Tale of Two Liars" Satan mocks a praying prisoner. "Are you stupid enough to still believe in the power of prayer? . . . There was enough prayer, wasn't there, when Chmielnicki came? How were those prayers answered? Children were buried alive, chaste wives raped-and later their bellies ripped open and cats sewed inside. Why should God bother with your prayers? He neither...
...dignity and the importance of the learner become paramount," says Bremer proudly. Explains Robert Johnson, a chubby 14-year-old black student: "In my old school, I was often afraid to ask a question, because I thought the teacher would think it was stupid. Here I'm never afraid to speak my mind...
...sister used to tell me all the time that I was stupid. My father, he's 37 or 38. He used to talk to me when he found out; he used to sit down for about 45 minutes or an hour and talk to me and then I'd say O.K., I'm not going to use it no more. He used to touch me sometimes, and I would cry. Once I left the house and went back out, it might be in my mind for a little while not to use drugs, but once they showed...