Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telling the truth as he saw it. I was seen with them. I was around, but I wasn't one of the fellows." Burrows had been "pretty naive," commented Committeeman Harold H. Velde. Said Burrows: "I'll go further than that. I'll say I was stupid." Onetime Cinemactress Karen (Scarface) Morley, with Manhattan's party-lining ex-Congressman Vito Marcantonio along for legal aid, was less naive. She admitted that she was 42 and that her real name was Mildred Linton Vider. But, 33 times when asked questions chiefly about Communist affiliation, she called...
...claimed that the common man has nothing to gain by voting the Stevenson ticket, that he, Stevenson, appeals only to the intellects. Does this not imply that the public is positively stupid and therefore cannot even understand the English language as used by Stevenson...
These two points are the core of Mr. Landis' letter. There remains, however, a somewhat embarrassing side-issue, Lodge's needless, off-hand, and stupid espousel of McCarthy. Yet, even this is not the damning flaw Mr. Landis considers it. Lodge, according to a current and valid cliche, usually votes wisely in Washington and apologizes for his wisdom in Massachusetts. When you compare Lodge's 1950 minority report on McCarthy's early charges and his recent ill-advised statement, you see this old cliche proven. If this was a single incident, Mr. Landis' charges would be more than embarrassing...
...There are some who say that the general intends to doublecross his new friends after the election. I do not believe either that the general is so unscrupulous or that they are so stupid...
Exit the Decoys. In the meanwhile, Hero Hardcaster has been losing favor with the Red-and-pink salon crowd. When he tells one over-amorous admirer that the atrocity tales were so much party propwash and that he himself was only a stupid bungler in Spain, the lady denounces him to the other pinkos as a low cynic. Hardcaster is only too glad to leave the froth front and take charge of the gunrunning scheme. How the Reds double-cross Hardcaster and decoy the innocent Stamps to their deaths in Spain makes for a mystery-thriller finish to Author Lewis...