Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Happened to Jose. Ferrer was in hot water from the moment he began his simple-country-boy tactics. How did it happen, the committee demanded, that so many Communist front outfits used his name? It was a case of "plain, stupid carelessness," replied Ferrer. Didn't Ferrer know that Ben Davis was an open Communist candidate when he sponsored him for election to New York's City Council? "I linked Davis with the Democratic Party," Ferrer said. "This is only an evidence of how careless...
...fact, Novelist Morris fishes so quietly, and in such common waters, that the uncommon quality of his haul may easily be overlooked. He has an insight which tells him that simple minds are only as simple as they are thought to be. Father is not just a stupid, henpecked husband, but a stifled human nature battling forlornly in middle age with the first problem of childhood: to establish an identity. Mother is not merely a domineering woman, but a terrifying archetype of the man-hater, a domestic tyrant whose methods could teach something to Machiavelli, perhaps even to Freud...
Bill explained why it took him five years to be commissioned. "I was just plain dumb. It was a combination of just having a year of high school and being really stupid...
...second most stupid blunder since the appointment of Dean Acheson...
...hated school, liked the poetic parts of the Bible, but had no interest in religion or "that stupid automaton, the preacher." Work he always hated ("Never do anything today that you can put off till tomorrow"), but the golden touch never deserted him. When he left the farm to go to Detroit at 18, it was to learn the drugstore business. He quit at the.end of the first week when he learned his apprentice wage: 50? a week. Within a year he was circulation manager of the Detroit News and, thanks to his commissions, was making more than the owners...