Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Perfect Creature loved by great artists, famed composers, married a young and stupid chemical engineer...
...correspondents hastened to Lloyd George. Said lie: "A stupid invention...
...than all five foreign wars. But the perpetrators of the childlike insult to adult intelligence are not interested in real problems, they want only to affright the masses and enhance the importance of their own position as defenders of those traditions which they tacitly assume the people are too stupid or too indifferent to preserve...
...medieval comedy of the contest between subtle cowardice and stupid courage is revived from the dust of the dramatic past. General Primo De Rivera, appropriating the part of King John, remains in Spain to reap the benefits of domestic power, and sends his turbulent rivals a-tourneying with the swarthy Saladdins of the Sahara, with the possibility of martial glory and the certainty of political annihilation. He prays that his noisy King Richards may not return to plague him in his uncertain dominion over the restless liberals of Spain. He has even adopted the knightly tradition of conquering an enemy...
...dismay of the worthy rector is too close a copy of the early nineteenth century reaction in English universities. The stupid oppression of nearsighted authority drove Shelley from Oxford, when he published a pamphlet on atheism. It could not see that these were the growing pains of vigorous young intellect. It could not foresee that the orthodoxy whose purity they tried to maintain unattached by heresy, would pale gradually before the onslaught of the mind until these cherished tenets of theological metaphysics were held only in the background and with deepest reservations by their apostolic successors, until the science...