Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...throwback on the British military tradition. Before descending to specific criticism, it may be well to point out that this is not a pacifist play. It attacks the ideals of imperialist wars, not wars whose goal is peace. As Owen remarks, "I find the ideals of war benighted, stupid, hideous; and find our tribute to those who wage it--when they wage it destructively enough--a worship of gods as false as the idols of savages." But he has in mind the wars fought by his ancestors, fought in the classic mould dwelt on by Kipling. Owen, indeed, later says...
Portly, senatorial George Lyon, veteran newspaper editor and OWI man, supported them. Lyon rumbled: "SHAEF's policy on this matter is stupid. . . . Everybody across hell and 40 acres knows what's going on. The American people are entitled to know...
...next dawn. Result: only 22 Jap planes had to be shot down; 227 which had been pinned down by night intruders were smashed on the ground in a few hours. Habit-bound themselves, the Japs had failed to allow for the change of pace. "I knew they were stupid," said Trickster Halsey, ". . . but not that stupid...
...Memoriam is great poetry." Now W. H. Auden (The Orators, For the Time Being), most influential of the younger poets, has made a selection of 60 poems from the mass of Tennyson's works, reintroduced them with a sharply critical but respectful preface. Tennyson, says Auden, was really rather stupid, but he had "the finest ear, perhaps, of any English poet." In addition, unlike many of his successors, he refused to fall into "the error of making a religion of the esthetic." Tennyson's message, concludes Poet Auden, in words that would make Victorian moralists nod approvingly...
Teresa got herself a job and waited. Only after eight more months did she finally come to realize what readers will have decided already. "How stupid he is," she said to herself. "How dull...