Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part, I am going to try to be just as truthful as I can be. And I believe this: I think even people who would classify themselves probably as my political enemies do believe I am honest-they may call me stupid-but I think they think I am honest...
...source of delight to me to find TIME [Jan. 23] giving the sport spotlight to amateur wrestling via "Bethlehem's Champ." It is refreshing to see such an article in the welter of stuff and nonsense intended to promote, rather than discourage, the utterly stupid "rassling" that callous promoters continue to foist on the naive public...
Southerners will undoubtedly be offended at the play's vision of them--naive, stupid, raucous, and unable to master their own dialect. There is not a Confederate in the cast. Yankee morals triumph, the plantation's only virgin is corrupted, and tradition falls. Northern gag men must sparkle to get away with this; they don't, principally because the comedy has a minimum number of funny lines. Any Jackie Gleason fan can predict virtually every ensuing speech...
...monumental crime they commit. Huston succeeds with some of his players and fails with others. The realism he tries to create is ofen shattered by weak dialogue and an implausible story. He has not mastered startling photographic technique. When these attempts at effect fail to divert attention from the stupid, simple plot, the suspense expires and the rest is aggravating...
...last year. Clearly there are political advantages in blasting Harvard as "a nest of Communists," and offering bills to purify the Cambridge menace. While the measures appear unlikely to pass in their present form, the Massachusetts legislators have been known, as a senior member observed, to do "some awfully stupid things...