Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another experiment with two Radcliffe girls, Janet, the experimenter's informant, was asked to become friends with Dora even though Dora, as Janet described her, had a "horrible voice", asked "stupid questions", and "did things you wouldn't mind seeing her do in front of a boy, but that you hate to see in front of a girl...
...Chiang is a dismal egotist with a devoted following of stupid, ruthless, cowardly gangsters. Chiang & Co. can no more be offered to the free world as China's answer to Communism than Senator McCarthy can be tolerated as America's answer. Shame on you for publishing that tearful eulogy...
...reason that we are a little late in writing a letter to the CRIMSON concerning your book review of Gullible's Travels is that we have been staying up late in Langdell in an attempt not to appear stupid, and trying to understand what Mr. Harvey said. Our conclusion and I think Gullible would occur (sic) is that the reviewer should go to law school ... but not Harvard...
Your IBM article [March 28] is most provocative . . . [but] a few comments are in order: A computing machine is nothing more than a fast, accurate and very stupid clerk that can do nothing more than it is built and told to do. Clerks are useful, valuable and often necessary, but their functions are not awe-inspiring. It is more important to ask the right questions than to obtain correct answers to the wrong questions. Further, the value of a mathematician is not measured by his arithmetical computing ability...
...front of the feeding fish. Once he has the trout's attention, Jerry quickly snakes his fly away at a 45° angle and gives it a few artful twitches as if it were trying to escape. These tactics never seem to fail. Explains Jerry: "Hatchery trout are stupid...