Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Third Way. Rosenzweig's Judaism did not lead him to orthodoxy any more than to philosophic liberalism. The Jew, wrote Rosenzweig, must free himself from "recipes . . . those stupid claims that would impose Juda-'ism' on him as a canon of definite, circumscribed 'Jewish duties' [i.e., orthodoxy as he saw it], or 'Jewish tasks' [Zionism as he saw it], or 'Jewish ideas' [liberalism] . . . There is one recipe alone that can make a person Jewish and hence, because he is a Jew and destined to a Jewish life-a full human being; that...
...silly tempest in a teapot arose because we dared to bring to light the cold, unpleasant facts about a Fifth Amendment Communist officer ... It now appears that for some reason he was a sacred cow of certain Army brass." In clear reference to General Zwicker, McCarthy said: "If a stupid, arrogant or witless man in a position of power appears before our committee and is found aiding the Communist Party, he will be exposed...
...keep Eisler from speaking. Incited by radio commentator Fulton Lewis Jr., a vigorous letter campaign demanded that Harvard keep Eisler from speaking. In answer to these critics, Dean Bender pleaded the College's case. "The world is full of dangerous ideas," he wrote, "and we are both naive and stupid if we believe that the way to prepare intelligent young men to face the world is to try to protect them from such ideas while they are in college. . . . If Harvard students can be corrupted by an Eisler, Harvard College had better shut down as an educational institution...
...salesman you claim is dead. Confidentially, I'm still alive-in spite of management! In order to live the way I insist upon living, I must net, after taxes, a minimum of $8,000 a year. I am kept at that level by stupid management...
...since 1945 there has ben a sudden shift in I.Q. In Stalag 17 we see a hint when one character warns "Remember, just because the krauts are dumb, that doesn't mean they're stupid." And in The Devil Makes Three several Germans--those helping Gene Kelly--seem almost smart...