Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most local experts disagree with Whelan and the government. Richard Frye, Aga Khan Professor of Iranian, calls Carter's measures "absolutely incredible" and "stupid." "The idea is just wrong," Frye says, adding, "The Iranian government is not going to be moved to release the hostages by this action." Roger Fisher '43, Williston Professor of Law, who has written extensively about the situation in Iran, argues that the White House has made "a great mistake to respond to the madness in Iran by madness over here...
...thinks that contemporary domestic life would be improved if chains and manacles were put back in the home, where they belong: "When father came in from work, the whole family could grab him and chain him for being stupid enough to be working all day long to support them...
...meaning was the essence of his genius. Even when he was painting below form, he could always find significance in commonplace sensations, however distorted the actual form: the death in a goat's skull or the spikiness of a sea urchin, the feather softness of a dove, the looming stupid menace of a bull, a toad's lumpish slither...
...stupid about politics," she says, explaining why she isn't as active as her colleagues Jane and Warren. She'd rather sponsor activities more directly applicable to families and children. Cambodian aid, for example. Why? "It's easy to get behind it and relate it to my life, you know," she explains...
...been easier than getting the assault team into position in the desert in the first place; both of them have refused to explain why they think so. Even some of the military planners concede that the complex mission violated an old Army rule called KISS, meaning "Keep it simple, stupid...