Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West's unease seemed trifling next to the dread in Poland before the supreme court ruling. "People were afraid of something happening-chaos, confrontation, the police, a stupid move by somebody," said a Warsaw journalist. Observed a Western diplomat: "They were huddling around their radios, and trying to remember what they had heard about the events preceding the invasion of Czechoslovakia...
...Thou shall not covet thy wife" does have the ring of a rather strange Eleventh Commandment. But I felt sure the Pope was not that stupid. He isn't. The full text of his talk is a magnificent treatise on the dignity of the human person. No woman, says the Pope, should be viewed only as a sex object. Not even your wife...
...student who asked not to be identified said, "It was difficult exam, and it was conducive for people to sit around and talk about it." She added, "I can't imagine people being that stupid...
...realist at all, and this problem be comes still worse with a painter like Georg Scholz. Scholz's Industrialized Farmers, 1920, is all rant and bile directed against the country folk whose profiteering helped cause the postwar shortages of food in German cities. Sly, pig-stupid and stuffed with moral rectitude, this rural trio looks like a brutal parody of Grant Wood's American Gothic (in fact, it was painted ten years earlier). Scholz took care to spread his political insult as far as pos sible; Weimar inflation is symbolized by the cretinous child, snot-nosed and snaggletoothed...
...McGinnis, like a Studs Terkel of the Arctic, fills his latest book with the words and appearances of people: the restless, the desperate, the shifty-eyed, the rowdy, the stupid, the tough, the stubborn, the stoned and the drunk. He listens to the beery yarns, life histories, and why-we-came-to-Alaska expoundings of a motley assortment of fast dealers, Dangerous Dan McGrews, crazed clergymen, plain folks, hippies keeping warm and dry and happy snorting cocaine, bartenders, flinty newspaper editors, pipeline workers, various well-and-not-so-well-intentioned politicians, naturalists and whores. All of them seem to lean...