Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...things have over disturbed me quite so much as the thoughtless, senseless and stupid action of the Student Council's Combined Charities Committee in removing the Salzburg Seminar from the list of Harvard-supported charities. But I have derived what consolation I might from the assumption that this ill-considered move was born in ignorance of what the Seminar is doing, since I cannot imagine that rational men, presumably the representatives of rational men, could conduct themselves in such a manner were they in possession of any of the facts...
...trusting old lady she is quite good, unless one believes that all simple, trusting old ladies are overacting their parts. Mable Taylor, playing Emmie the family servant, is perhaps the outstanding actress in the show; she is provincial, she is hunched over, she is always properly subservient and sufficiently stupid...
Thanks & Forgiveness. Back in his camp, Bhave admonished his disciples to bear no ill will toward the pandas. Then he offered thanks for "having the blessing of the Lord in this manner." But a national cry of protest rose up across India. "This stupid and brutal assault," cried Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, "brings out forcibly the degradation of those who claim to serve religion, and want to make it a vested interest of their own." President Rajendra Prasad, who gave up his Bihar estates to Bhave's campaign to collect land for his landless ones (TIME, May 11), sent...
...Tito was the prize exhibit in the Kremlin's gallery of satellite chiefs, and Diplomat Lavrentiev was in a cushy spot. Then Tito made his break with the Kremlin. (Shortly before the break, a brash Yugoslav diplomat asked Foreign Minister Molotov: "Why have you sent us such a stupid ambassador?" Replied Molotov: "Lavrentiev may be stupid, but he is a very good Bolshevik.") When Lavrentiev came to Iran as ambassador only five weeks ago, the Communists were riding high, and Moscow seemed on the way to gobbling up a fresh satellite. But then came the anti-Mossadegh uprising...
...people remember Adolf Hitler as a thinker. Yet he was one-the kind that is all too frequently found in saloons or on park benches, spinning grandiose, hate-laden theories about the world, tossing off answers to all questions in a manner that the Germans call dumm-schlau (stupid-smart). Such men are usually ignored by others as annoying but unimportant cranks. By a tragedy of history, Adolf Hitler gained the power to put his rambling, dumm-schlaue theories into practice...