Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know, hold membership cards in the CP, yet neither lie nor follow the Party line in their teaching. The Communist Party in this country is not so perfectly organized that naive teachers cannot hold dormant membership without being read out. They are unfaithful Communists and politically stupid men. But only when their Communism affects their teaching should they exit. Communists can certainly teach math, physics, or languages so long as they can meet the AAU's other standards...
...remarked: "It was here that I learned how to be patriotic to one's country." Even London's Laborite Daily Mirror had a kind word for Bertie McCormick: "Now he is with us once more . . . and has been summing us up again. Bless him. Bless his stupid old rancorous heart." The News Chronicle even suggested the time might be ripe to open the question of "a Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Esteem between Britain and the colonel...
...these hearings will do to American education. It is obvious that the Committee knows no crime the Lubell brothers have committed; if it did, they would be testifying before a genuine court of law, not Jenner's selfstyled jury. Instead, they probably engaged in leftist activities. Perhaps, they were stupid; perhaps, they joined some organizations with flashy liberal labels without considering their aims. They were, however, undergraduates whose emotions may have been stronger than their young intellects. In no way that we can see, does Jenner and his committee have the right to condemn even stupidity, as long as that...
...Stupid and Irresponsible...
...Liberal Union "was opposed to investigations of Communists in academic life, but was equally opposed to this sort of stupid and irresponsible action, like marching with banners, that can only discredit the cause of Academic Freedom...