Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parietal rules elicit nostalgic chuckles from members of the Class today. "We all thought the rules were stupid but at that time we never doubted that that was the way things were--it really is ludicrous," Brody recalls. The rules weren't always strictly observed, although Brody doesn't recall any occasions when either he or any of his friends kept a woman in the dorm overnight. But, he says, "you could screw in the afternoon and that was happening a lot. We also had a car and so there was always the back seat." Trustman says his whole generation...
...ever been to a Harvard football game you've seen all those ridiculously dressed big bastards pounding their heads together and fighting for that stupid ball but you were there to see the band anyway and you got tanked up with your roommates at the barbecue lunch and you really couldn't make out any shapes so you just kept screaming unintelligible epithets about opposing coach's mother and then you passed out. Go Harvard...
...compute the ratio. Then he'd smile at his host and flee. Beth was going through a premed stage at the time and she would often study with Greg. She owed her high grades that semester not to any scientific aptitude but to her desire not to appear stupid to him. By the end of the semester, she was no longer interested in med school but she was interested in Greg...
...only thing that stands between the magnificent wild animals of Africa and their final annihilation is what you call the tsetse scourge [April 25]. If stupid men find the means of eradicating trypanosomiasis, even stupider men and their dumb cattle will destroy the remaining elephants, lions and tigers, who are naturally immune. And inexorably, the men will overpopulate and the cattle overgraze the land until a new equilibrium is reached. But the great wild animals will be extinct. One man's scourge is another man's blessing...
Neither the pessimists nor the optimists can afford to be dogmatic. Says Sheldon Lambert, manager of energy economics and forecasting for Shell: "Anyone who says he knows exactly what the reserves are or when we are going to run out of gas and oil is either naive or stupid." Areas that seem promising often turn out to be duds. U.S. companies have sunk well after well off the northwest coast of Florida in a spot where the geological characteristics seemed encouraging; they all have been dry. By contrast, oil turns up in places that looked hopeless. In the North...