Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shock soon gave way to pleased surprise. As the performance unfolded, Laughton's Lear never forgot that his was a family tragedy; even the first-act simpering made sense, for it showed a fool-father truly stupid enough to be gulled by his ugly daughters, Regan and Goneril. Then, as the king wandered mad through the storm, deserted by his daughters, the performance departed the norm again. Laughton's king was strangely calm and compelling. Rarely was he moved to the familiar, passion-torn shrieks of other Lears. His fantastic monologues with himself sounded almost conversational...
...Light Infantry Ball, Basso (10) 10. Wake Up, Stupid, Harris...
...Wake Up, Stupid, Harris...
...peace ... I am prepared to turn my pockets out to show I am harmless." He would, he said, refuse any invitations to visit U.S. military installations. He was not going to the U.S. to find out how strong the U.S. is-"One would be stupid not to know that the U.S. is strong and rich...
...governments of the Fourth Republic. Outside Parliament he began, with practical organizing skill, to pull together the network of Gaullist and wealthy Algerian settlers who on May 13, 1958 touched off the military revolt in Algiers. Today he indignantly insists that "there was no plot, or that sort of stupid stuff." But a moment later he pulls out a copy of a book spelling out the details of the Algiers plot and, with a chuckle, points to the author's inscription: "To Jacques Soustelle, the principal architect of the miraculous days in Algiers...