Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editorial on "big issues." I doubt I would flatter The Crimson by turning to page two. I would look to the Globe, the Times, the New Republic, Moral Majority News, Workers Vanguard--anywhere but The Crimson. Whether or not the average Harvard student is ignorant, apathetic, or stupid, it is not up to The Crimson to chastise...
...attempts to explain his crusade and his chosen victims to his new recruit: "Only those who break completely the human bond, Charlie. They deserve to die." Kurtz means terrorists, but he himself must face the necessity of ordering death for someone who has committed no crime except being too stupid or unlucky to stay...
Hertz Chairman Frank Olson calls the practice "stupid and destructive," but his company is doing it. National Car Rental President Bemiss Rolfs admits that the strategy is "idiotic," but his firm is going along too. Both Hertz, the No. 1 rental-car company, and National, No. 3, have been "dragged kicking and screaming," as Olson puts it, into a gigantic giveaway game started by No. 2, Avis, last September. The giants of the rental-car business are courting customers with a growing array of gifts, from toy koala bears to vacations at resort hotels. This costly contest comes...
Scola and his screenwriter, the late Sergio Amidei (whose credits include such neorealist masterpieces as Shoeshine and Bicycle Thief), want to make two points: that Louis XVI's plans were unhinged not by ideology but by a series of stupid accidents; that the ideas and impressions of the travelers jouncing along in the King's wake are blinkered by their subjectivity and their failure to account for history's indifference to the logical linking of events, which can be imposed by hindsight. Only Barrault's marvelously ironic Restif, curious as a cat and just as amoral...
After some reflection, Lucero came around. "I'll agree with you. It was a stupid decision." Levitas harbored darker suspicions about the shredders: "I have in formation that they were heavily used at night and on the weekends. Anyone who believes that all this was done by a GS 7 [clerk] still believes in the tooth fairy...