Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poignant tragedy of shortsightedness in the present discussion about fallout and the relative merits of clean versus dirty bombs, especially from the point of view of a shock hydrodynamicist. War has always been a stupid, nasty and insane business, at best, and the present orders of magnitude on civilian targets lends little sense to the hypocrisy of trying to distinguish between useful and useless killing...
...Kazan-Schulberg motion picture A Face in the Crowd: your review is stupid...
...powerful Jehovah. Learning is not interested in being told how good or bad it is; it is interested in being responded to, in being shown what is being done wrong. Let us look at the question logically. Socratically, what it the point in telling a student he is stupid if he is stupid; and if he is not stupid, what is the point in telling him that...
...price of leadership." The most pointed alarm, however, was one of a different tenor, sounded by London's Liberal News Chronicle: "Anything that encourages the U.S. to withdraw into 'Fortress America' is bad for the free world. The policy of backing the discredited Chiang may be stupid, but riots like this encourage isolationism, not realism, in the United States...
What had happened to France since the days in 1914, when the Germans also threatened a breakthrough and 6,000 reinforcements were rushed in hastily commandeered Paris taxicabs to the Marne, where they helped to stem the Boche tide? Dutourd says simply: in 1940 "the generals were stupid and the men did not want to be killed." From Commander in Chief Gamelin down, with the honorable exception of De Gaulle ("one great soul"), the generals were "doddering numskulls." "cockroaches," "poltroons." They "had the instruments of victory in their hands. What nobody realized was this: they were longing to change their...