Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final necessity for the success of the new Union, in Harvard at least, is that the leadership be entrusted permanently in reliable hands. One college generation of stupid leadership, one turnover of the "electorate", and the Union would fall into the sort of bad reputation which causes not healthy battle, but contemptuous neglect. An executive council largely made up of recognized student leaders, such as the Presidents of the Student Council and of Phillips Brooks House, would seem the best assurance that the organization would remain a parliament in which each individual and each group could fight without breaking...
...picture is that Goo-Goo is missing most of the time and Penner's acting suffers from it. Francis Langford is quite pleasant as the secretary of the school but she seems to have had a lapse of judgment when she falls for Oakie who looks utterly stupid with a newly found moustache...
...addicts, including nobility, geisha, schoolboys, government officials, watched the matches on each of the ten days of the Kokugi-kan tournament. Outside the arena, thousands more bet on the matches, followed the results on score boards. Of the money spent for tickets, the performers got a trifling share. As stupid as they are immense, sumo performers are content with a maximum pay of $100 a month augmented only by gifts of swords, bottles of sake, new aprons from generous admirers. Four years ago, a sumo strike for better pay, shorter hours, cheaper seats, a mutual aid society, pensions...
...sleep from me, I did complete a hasty toilet and thence to review some notings in economics. But soon my eyes did turn to two little sparrows on the window-sill, frequent visitors, who did fight most unlady-like over a crust of bread. And I thought to myself: "Stupid creatures. Know ye not economics: Divide, cooperate; and be happy!" And then I did almost hear them say: "Pray, brother, by what example teach you Marx...
...children did well although they were made to cry too much. Their part of the story, unfortunately was telescoped to such an extent that the importance of the childhood relation which is so carefully established by du Maurois is largely lost and the explaining sub-title is entirely stupid in calling Gogo's life "foreshadowed" without showing...