Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie opened in Boston in its original form, but sure enough, several days later its scenario was discreetly "edited," while in the Beacon Hill's newspaper advertisements Kirsten, the young heroine, suddenly acquired a bathing suit. The cutting has not hurt the film much, but of course it was stupid and unnecessary. In either of its versions, One Summer of Happiness is restrained, beautiful, and totally lacking in offensiveness. It displays infinitely better artistic taste than, to take an obvious example, the "Miss Universe" short that precedes it on the Beacon Hill program...
Next day he took it back. The bishop's statement "was intended as an exhortation, not as a command," said a spokesman. But the secular press saw its chance, and pounced: "How smug," exploded the Daily Mirror, "and how stupid." Editorialized the Daily Sketch: "Once again the Church of England has spoken with two voices." And the Evening Standard: "The new Bishop of London has made an unfortunate start in his high and important office." The" established Church of England quietly buttoned up its gaiters and waited for things to quiet down...
...times, and the case lay dormant until the next fall. It was then resurrected by a group under Corliss Lamont '24, demanding the back pay. At that point the CRIMSON, wearying of the battle, remarked that "the University's policy has been at best a miserly, penny-pinching, and stupid one throughout." In December it was all over: Lamont's group distributed to the scrubwomen the $3,880 that it had raised...
...weekly published in Vatican City, ran an article attacking U.S. Protestants, sloppy reporting made it appear in many U.S. papers as a Vatican-inspired view. But Milwaukee's Catholic Herald Citizen (circ. 126,097)-which is just as official as the unofficial Osservatore-rapped the Italian article as "stupid, untruthful, uncharitable...
...probably full of folly. He invariably spends it foolishly. The five-day week is humane, and all rational men have supported it, but it would be silly to say that it has produced any public value, save the lowly value of making idiots happy . . . They are just as stupid as they were before they had it; indeed, there is some reason to believe that they are more stupid...