Word: stupidest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That "white sidewall" haircut episode was the stupidest piece of bureaucratic nonsense I ever heard of. The Sepoy mutiny in India (1857-59) started because some silly ass in the British army ordered the Mohammedan native troops (who could not eat pigs) to bite off the end of a cartridge which had been waterproofed with pig fat. This mutiny cost the lives of thousands of troops on both sides. I'm not suggesting that we are starting a second Sepoy mutiny, but I'd like to point out that a lot of trained technicians are not re-enlisting...
...America herself. "An avowed aloof ness from national feeling," Lionel Trilling says, "is no longer the first ceremonial step into the life of thought . . . For the first time in the history of the modern American intellectual, America is not to be conceived of as a priori the vulgarest and stupidest nation of the world...
Calling the move "one of the stupidest things the Air Force has ever done," an officer who refused to be named said the disbanding will harm the service in the long run. "The Air Force needs and wants to have a many people as possible conscious of air power. The dissolvement of the units, however, can only cause graduates of schools like Harvard to be more Army and Navy conscious and less Air Force conscious," the officer said...
India's is "the stupidest of the world's Communist parties," Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru once remarked. Last week India's Communist Party did its bumbling best to say yes, boss...
From Paris, the New York Times reported an observation of Philosopher Albert Schweitzer: "The great sickness of man is that he is constantly seeking entertainment and more entertainment, sometimes of the stupidest and more cruel type, instead of finding stimulation from within. Look into some aspects of sports and boxing and you'll see what I mean. Seneca was one of the first to speak out against the combat of the gladiators. Isn't there possibly a parallel between the decadence of the declining Roman Empire and our own overemphasis on mass hysteria stimulated by some mass sports...