Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stupid he who gives...
Marlon conceded that "when I came to Hollywood I had a rather precious and coddled attitude about my own integrity. It was stupid of me to resist so directly the prejudice that money is right. But just because the big shots were nice to me I saw no reason to overlook what they did to others and to ignore the fact that they normally behave with the hostility of ants at a picnic. The marvelous thing about Hollywood is that these people are recognized as sort of the norm, while I am the flip. These gnarled and twisted personalities...
...commonly accepted high point. The preamble can be as funny as the punch line, if there is any, and each story is up to the individual. If the individual likes it snide, he can have it; if he likes it zany, it's here. Long, short, tall, reserved, stupid, odd, out-of-place, out-of-taste, all of them are here--almost ninety of them...
...appointed Italy's new Foreign Minister. As Minister of Education, Dr. Martino had cracked down on the comfortable Italian habit of turning out thousands of ignorant youngsters with college degrees and a smattering of Latin while training too few mechanics and skilled workers. "Flunk without pity lazy or stupid students," he ordered examiners. As a result, June exams became known as "the slaughter of the innocents...
Lawyer Vishinsky's answer crackled with sarcasm. The periodic patrol flights along the Siberian coast were "peeping into other people's gardens." He denounced the "very stupid carelessness" of the first Navy reports. Said Vishinsky: "Accordingly, I say that this entire fairy tale about a poor Neptune being shot down . . . will certainly not hold water." Of U.S. reports that the plane was on weather and submarine patrol, he said: "It appears . . . this means practice in testing the radar strength and the radar installations [on the Siberian coast...