Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason that many people believe that no Dean of Canterbury could speak in public as he does except as the mouthpiece of the Archbishop . . . Indeed, there are many people on the Continent who believe, oddly enough, that the Archbishop and the Dean are one and the same person." Blind & Stupid. However, the Archbishop went on, "there are some who, in revulsion from the Dean's utterances, become - dare I say it - as blind, as unreasonable and as stupid about the Dean as the Dean is himself. We should try to help them to escape from that kind of fanatical...
...convention hall itself. A column by Scripps-Howard's Robert Ruark ("Doug was a dud as a keynoter") was stopped after it turned up alongside an editorial praising General MacArthur's speech as "A Call to Arms." Hearst papers killed a Pegler column saying Eisenhower is "a stupid man [and] I will do all I can to prevent his election...
...view and agreeing with practically everybody." "The idea an an all powerful being," says Jung himself, "is present everywhere, if not consciously recognized, then unconsciously accepted...I consider it wiser to recognize the idea of God consciously; otherwise, something else becomes God, as a rule something quite inappropriate and stupid, such as only an 'enlightened' consciousness can devise...
...Sometimes the optimism comes out with a reverse twist. One of his best works is a large (210 sq. ft.) affair with an evil-looking creature covered with yellow and black feathers facing a gaily prancing deer-and a legend: "So you will better understand unhappiness [which] is too stupid to exist...
...court next day, Marshall, whom friends describe as "an average, rather stupid young man," was formally charged with having "on divers dates and at divers places, for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the state, communicated to another person, to wit, Pavel Kuznetsov, information . . . useful to an enemy." Marshall denied everything, and went to jail to await his trial. The Russian was safe from arrest, under diplomatic immunity. Scotland Yard would not say whether Marshall had given away any important secrets; handling code as he did, he was in a position to. He was the fourth Briton...