Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pertinent shuttling from present to past and back to the immediate. His Anglo-Saxon standards, it turns out, left him with plenty to admire-from the Byzantine intrusions on the classic architecture so revered by the purists, to the Greeks themselves, whom he found lazy, but rarely rude or stupid...
Gallantry. Says Martienssen: "Although . . . Doenitz's last campaign was both stupid and suicidal, one cannot but admire the gallantry of the U-boat crews, who, in spite of the overpowering weight of Allied naval forces, continued to fight in remote areas with undiminished spirit . . . The damage they did was negligible; the losses they suffered were enormous; and yet, alone of all Germany's armed forces, they fought on to the very last day of the war. Their record at sea during the whole war, too, was not as bad as it has been painted. Whatever they might have...
Edward Finnegan makes an impressive and pompous Agamemnon. Gregg Martin, as Achilles, is quite as conceited and despicably treacherous as intended. And John Peters plays a delightfully stupid and proud Ajax...
...positive was pugnacious old Clarence Budington Kelland, the slick fictioneer who is also national committeeman from Arizona-a part of the country where dinosaur relics are still found. One day last week, Bud Kelland delivered himself of a blast. Said he: "Dewey's campaign was smug, arrogant, stupid, and supercilious ... It was a contemptuous campaign, contemptuous alike to our antagonists and to our friends. The Albany group proved themselves to be geniuses in the art of stirring up an avalanche of lethargy. No issue was stated or faced." What was needed, said Kelland, was a "housecleaning from...
...evidence. Although the purpose of this book is to present an objective view of the case, the authors could obviously not refrain from unconsciously injecting their own judgments. Professor Morgan writes: "Against a masterful and none too scrupulous prosecution was opposed a hopelessly mismanaged defense before a stupid trial judge." This comment is part of the chapter devoted to the so-called Dedham Trial, which is followed by a very detailed examination of the legal controversy which raged after the conviction of the defendants. The unofficial part of this battle centered around articles written by Justice (then Professor) Felix Frankfurter...