Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rhodes is promised a Cabinet post as Secretary for National Morale. But by this time the moviegoer is not believing a word of it, and he may well be wondering if Director Kazan, like the villain of his piece, has not somehow mistaken his public for a bunch of "stupid slobs...
...Satirist Jean Dutourd (A Dog's Head, The Best Butter) will have little to do with any of these explanations. He refuses to see history in terms of abstract ideas, cycles or forces. He sees it in terms of men-weak or strong, good or bad. wise or stupid, to be judged by such quaint values as honor and courage, dishonor and cowardice...
Many of the question, of course, are just stupid. Many important questions are not asked; although the Yearbook is interested in numbers of future progeny, it could not care less about future vocations. Absurd questions, which could have been answered freshman year (where is home, family income, reasons for coming) take the place of questions which could only be answered, if at all, by Seniors. Some of the right questions are asked, of course, but in a way which allows all significance to escape with a quiet hiss. Seniors are asked whether they believe that labor unions have become...
...with The Little Miss, is somewhat slow and less smooth--shoulder-kneading can be awkward--but Gail Jones is exactly as virtuous a coquette as she should be. She succeeds again opposite John van Itallie, as The Poet, in a particularly fresh scene. Her indignantly stating "I'm not stupid," delays things a bit; he, delighted, waves back "Of course...
...Austrian figure of fun, a degenerate young aristocrat who always says stupid things that are somehow not so stupid after all. Example: when the tide began to turn against the Nazis, Graf Bobby went into a map store one day and asked for a globe of Germany...