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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...
Witness Hayden was unable to name many of his cellmates. Most of them he knew only by their first names and most of them were obscure writers and back-lot workers. The whole affair, said Hayden, now seemed "the stupidest, most ignorant thing I've ever done. Believe me, it's a load off my chest...
...Vote for the Stupidest." Haunted by the fear of both Bonaparte and Bourbon restorations, the Frenchmen who reconstituted the Republic after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 reduced the powers of the President to almost honorary dimensions. Thereafter, the jealous deputies usually selected as President the kind of man who would not try to broaden the scope...
...election in 1887, Clemenceau summed up this view of the presidency by growling at his colleagues, "Vote for the stupidest." His fellow deputies paid him a backhanded compliment 33 years later, when they decisively voted him down for the same office...