Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name were so formidable as to reverse a motor reflex. It never works. One might try slipping false jackets on one's books-a cover for The Secret Agent disguising Utility Rates in Ottawa: A Woman's View. But book borrowers are merely despicable, not stupid; they tend to leaf before they pluck. Besides, the interesting thing about the feeling of loss when a book is borrowed is that the book's quality rarely matters. So mysterious is the power of books in our lives that every loss is a serious loss, every hole in the shelf...
Anderson: I don't think the issue of Right versus Left on this campus is comparing Left versus Right-wing atrocities. That's not the point; that leads to relatively stupid quibbling....If we're talking about South Africa, the issue isn't apartheid, the issue isn't cheap labor; it becomes Angola...
...first and maybe her last movie, Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. She knows it and she is sorry, because she loves Pirates, and Papp, and Director Wilfred Leach, and Cast Members Rex Smith (the seraphically stupid hero Frederic), Kevin Kline (the pirate king), George Rose (the major general), Angela Lansbury (the nursemaid Ruth) and Tony Azito (the double-jointed police sergeant...
...exquisite and marriages endured, and wars were just, and honor mattered, and you could buy a decent tomato. The lament for vanished standards is an old art form: besieged gentility cringes, indignant and vulnerable, full of memories, before a present that behaves like Stanley Kowalski: crude, loud, upstart and stupid as a fist...
...questions, the vice presidents figured, why not? Fewer than 5 percent of the first wave of students took the opportunity, but it was enough to give the folks at the Board some sleepless nights. From two zealous post-test takers came successful challenges--one straightforward and stupid mistake concerning positive and negative integers, and one conundrum in three-dimensional geometry, which threw the entire Department of Access Services into a tizzy. "Pyramids," my supervisor was still groaning last summer, months after the third and fourth possible solutions to the question had hit the national press. "Do these people know what...