Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That statement is so contrary to every concept of legal ethics as I read and understand them. . . Either Mr. Curtis' views are in conflict with those of every decent member of the legal profession, or he has expressed them in a manner that can only be described as inordinately stupid...
...Discrimination: "In a time when America needs all the skills, all the spiritual strength and dedicated services of its 155 million people, discrimination is criminally stupid...
...spokesman: "Suppose the Government ordered you to sell Mutiny on the Bounty to TV. You could say, 'O.K., but we want four million bucks.' TV can't pay that, so you're right back where you started. The whole thing's just too stupid." In calling it stupid, Hollywood was being polite. In fact, this action by Attorney General McGranery was an example of deliberate efforts to destroy, by Government interference, freedom of bargaining...
...every opportunity to get sharpened up. His father, a bail bondsman, not only made a lucrative career out of springing prostitutes for onetime Crime King "Lucky" Luciano, but turned state's evidence when the roof fell in and got off without a bruise. Barry, however, was both stupid and unlucky. He had hardly started a career as a holdup man at the age of 16 before he was nabbed by the cops. At 18 he found himself doing time in a reformatory. Last week, out on parole and 20, he swaggered out to try again...
Dreamboat (20th Century-Fox) is a tart, tweedy college professor (Clifton Webb), who was once a silent screen ham, rated second in popularity only to "some stupid police dog." When his old movies suddenly become popular on television, embarrassed Professor Webb sues to keep them from being shown. "It's like exhuming a man from his grave," he argues. But the ending is a happy one: Webb winds up in Hollywood with a talking picture contract that bars police dogs from the casts of his movies...