Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tale of Hans Andersen?a fisherman paddling his boat, drawing his nets, hears the nightingale; the Emperor hears it, so does his Bonze, so does his cook, who finally persuades it to come and live at court. Japanese ambassadors come bringing the Chinese Emperor a mechanical nightingale, and the stupid, stupid courtiers, forgetting their own perfect nightingale, applaud the artificial one, and the real bird flies away. . . . The Emperor is dying and the nightingale sings again. Death stops to listen, steals away, leaves the Emperor, enlightened, happy. Stravinsky, strange, strident, sardonic, owed many of his most striking effects to Serge...
...here let us leave Mr. Dreiser. He has not written a great book nor a significantly vile book. He has tumbled from the pedestal upon which his cultists have placed him with such genuflections and censoring of incense. He has written a great stupid opus. He has disastrously damaged what real claims to distinction he may once have had. And while we are not among those iconoclastic dervishes who are dancing with delight over his downfall, we passionately convinced that his future will not be as rosy as his present is and his past has been...
...Subscriber Tibbets called Rupert Hughes "stupid...
...drinks, drugs, smokes, wears earrings, has venereal diseases, tattoos, castrates, circumcises, lets mosquitoes live, fears free trade and death, martyrs his great, razes his forests and does not talk Esperanto, and because all the while he knows better, therefore, fumes Prof. Richet, homo sapiens is homo stultus, most stupid of animals, God's idiot. Most of which is the ranting of a dyspeptic physiologist. Whole herds of bison, seals, penguins and other contented animals are cited in contrast to homo stultus, but in the heat of the moment the author neglects to enlarge upon them specific attainments...
With a few stupid ones like this...