Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rabbit's colleague Tympani (Martin Harris) is another artiste who was called in a few months back to work on the project. Tympani speaks his credo midway through the first act: "Optimism isn't reassuring. It's stupid." Harris convincingly portrays Tympani's pessimism. And he is also effective when Tympani daydreams beamingly about owning a "pale green diner" or going to the movies...
...whole attitude was, 'Oh, you're just a stupid little white girl who doesn't know anything.' I don't think there has been much [sensitization since the rape]," Deakins says...
Professor Eloise Knapp Hay of the University of California at Santa Barbara, whose book T.S. Eliot's Negative Way was published in 1982, lambasts Ozick's article in much the same fashion as Hall, calling the author's arguments "stupid," "ridiculous" and "outrageously wrong...
...Perfection Theory: This theory argues that Harvard students are obsessed with perfection, and hold too high standards for potential mates. "Possibilities" are weeded out as too stupid, too tall, too artistic, too athletic or worse, too conservative...
...Washington officials voiced concern that Cristiani was losing control to extremists within his party and the military. There was speculation that the Treasury Police, who had raided the priests' residence just days earlier, may have had a hand in the murders. "This was incredibly stupid," said a U.S. official. "As long as we've been telling army officials that they can't allow this kind of thing to happen, they still haven't learned...