Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Referring to Brown's 17 nationally affiliated chapters. Wriston last May called them "one of our most conspicuous negative elements" which nothing can save "If they continue to be so stupid as to defeat the purpose of the University...
...longer view. He spoke with an optimism that would have seemed merely wishful two years ago. What he sees ahead, now that the West is able to confront Russia with growing strength, is a military standoff, without war, in which the West ("unless a lot of us are pretty stupid") could sustain forces on a maintenance basis, without an endless series of $60 billion annual U.S. defense budgets. When military parity is reached, he said, the world would enter a higher, "ten dollar" kind of struggle-between opposing economic, moral and intellectual ideas. "It will be long, dreary and expensive...
...military security. The Turks are actually quite right in playing things very carefully. Last month I was sitting in the bar of Beirut's St. Georges Hotel. Two American sergeants on leave were pretty drunk and holding forth at the top of their voices about how incredibly stupid Turks are at learning to use tanks. They illustrated their points with considerable detail. Two known Communist barkeepers got an earful, kept stiff drinks coming to the two loud Americans...
...Murder is a pretty stupid affair," Dr. Ford claims. "The chances that a murderer won't drop as much as a flake of dandruff near his victim, nor be seen by any witnesses...
...Sorry, said the publisher, we can't afford it: we contribute to scholarship by bringing out books that will never make money. "Such solicitude [for scholarship]," wrote Bierstedt, "is touching"-but he had seen too many lavish dinners go on publishers' expense accounts. "Professors may be stupid when it comes to dollars," he concluded, "but they know a little something about dialectic...