Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many and grave, and we do well to discipline ourselves and our students in the moral and ascetical controls of this as of all other vices. But the dangers of intellectual stagnation are not less grievous both for individual personality and for the common good. The wrath of the stupid has laid waste the world quite as often as has the craft of the bright...
...Elle charges with double-page center spreads in defense "of that most fragile of human mechanisms: a poet." The paper ran photostats of Minou's green-inked scribbling, complete with its own expert's handwriting analysis ("imagination, energy, naive assurance") and psychological deductions ("harmoniously developed, neither stupid, nor poor nor vulgar...
...himself had had nothing to do with the Princess' decision. "Of course," he said, "she took advice, and she chose whom she took it from." And then he added, with a bluntness that distressed even some of his supporters: "We are fighting against a great popular wave of stupid emotionalism." The Archbishop's attitude on divorce, huffed Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, "makes it inevitable that the question of the disestablishment of the Church of England must be urgently examined...
...Your cover of Thurgood Marshall was offensive, and your account of the segregation problem unfair and untrue. You dam-yankees are all alike-just plain stupid-and not worthy of a good lynching...
...have partnership. Modern developments in the field of communications have drawn nations physically together so that, as never before, what concerns one concerns many. It was always wrong to operate on the basis of 'each for himself and the devil take the hindmost.' Now it is also stupid. The United States now has partnership association for security with 44 nations. The result is to create a measure of security which no one, not even the strongest, could achieve on a purely national basis...