Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City Center gave a good production--we especially liked David Schramm, who played the deputy Angelo, a man purported so cold his urine is "congealed ice," but who is kept warm by his desire for Isabel. As a sort of stupid, bemedalled shopkeeper, Angelo is too unimaginative to notice his own humanity until it firms up and pricks him, like reality pricking through a sentimental ideal. Like Gay, Shakespeare could sometimes take pleasure in this sort of moment. Chekhov was kinder, and accepted things more quietly--but none of the three playwrights questioned that reality will surface, every time...
...convince others of CCNY's integrity instead of safeguarding the institution's integrity by making an enlightened decision. In saying, "We might turn around and rehire him without the degree," Gross implicitly admits they are just playing bureaucratic humbug. Lies like Horovitz's are despicable; they are especially stupid when they are unnecessary, as in this case where the degree played no role in his hiring four years ago. But the proposed penalty--dismissal--is like cutting off the hands of a shoplifter; the punishment does not parallel the crime. Lack of a degree has in no way diminished Horovitz...
Nixon has not ended the Indochinese war as claimed. Thousands of Americans have been hired by his administration to continue this incredibly stupid war. More than a million military mercenaries and police forces are still being paid with U.S. taxpayers' money. Many prisoners captured by U.S. forces and turned over to Ky and Thieu, the Saigon quisling-traitor-agents of Johnson and Nixon, plus many more are political prisoners still occupying cages built by U.S. companies. All of this is in violation of the "cease fire" which Nixon and Kissinger falsely call peace. None of these crimes could continue...
...course, none of this has been getting too much attention lately. About the only thing for which people are still criticizing Ford is his alleged lack of intelligence, a criticism that has been made for years. Lyndon Johnson reportedly once remarked that Ford was too stupid to walk and chew gum at the same time, because in college, Johnson explained, Ford had played football on too many occasions without wearing his helmet. When Eugene McCarthy spoke at the Law School Forum here two years ago, he apologized for having supported legislation that Ford came out for five years later. "When...
...make the British Communist Party look important." As for the Pay Board's belated discovery that the miners were not being paid 3% above the average industrial wage but 8% below, Wilson drew cheers with the Churchillian parody that "never in the history of arithmetic had so stupid a miscalculation done so much damage to so many millions of people...