Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acquitted of the assault charge, but Yolaine's separation suit dragged on for six months, in three courts (sighed Sol: "I thought, how stupid. Here we are educated people. Well, at least we have a veneer"). Meanwhile, to keep up the rent payments, Yolaine Randall took a modeling job (sneered Sol: "All she can model is coats. Have you seen her legs? They're horrible"). Meanwhile, Sol got a job as cashier at the Brass Rail restaurant...
...country represents for the entire world, would he not carry his country's conception of man to a waiting world? . . . Would it be fanciful or absurd or unjust to imagine that certain intellectuals might feel themselves touched to the quick, personally insulted or personally revolted by the stupid calumnies brought against their country every day throughout the world? . . . Is it fanciful, absurd, or unjust to imagine that these intellectuals might some day take up the defense of their insulted country? . . . The world needs America, not so much her money or atomic bombs as the wisdom and courage...
...that similar measures had failed of passage in past years, and said he saw little difference between this year's versions and previous ones. "Personally, I think they're so much hogwash," he said, but still held out slight chance for passage, saying, "but we do some awfully stupid things in this legislature...
...Thomas Nast caricature of the bediamonded, potbellied lobbyist has faded beyond recognition. Says American Hotel Association Lobbyist Donald Montgomery: "Some businessmen are still stupid enough to want a crook for a lobbyist, a guy who can make the quick fix. But those characters are out of date." In to replace him has come a well-trained, accommodating technical expert whose facts-tailored, of course, to fit his own cause-are presented not in a backroom, but at a formal hearing. One of the lobbyist's biggest jobs is to gauge political winds and determine what he can get. Said...
...treatment of the happily married couple, those who have "other interests" to fill their waking hours, admits no such thing as love, the highest ideal of mankind, the only real stability in a world so transient and insecure as is ours, only screaming responsibility. These couples are just too stupid to be other than doggedly faithful. This is certainly most depressing to a young woman seriously contemplating marriage...