Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lewis Mumford, professor of Humanities at M.I.T., told the Harvard World Federalists last night that "our stupid military policy of massive retaliation might better be termed wholesale extermination...
...ahead, Governors Faubus and Almond -close the schools. Make your stupid Southerners stupider...
...most fervent hope is that the "Ike was stupid" crowd took a good look at the pictures...
...Daniel L. Gutman, partner in Zuckerman, Smith & Co.: "The market is enormously dangerous at current levels. There is a great deal of ignorant and superficial buying which is using inflation as an excuse. Unless inflation shows up in earnings and dividends, this reasoning is stupid. The market over the next six months will sell materially lower, touching last fall...
...story centers about Sidney, a fortyish widowered proprietor of a second-rate Miami Beach hotel, and his rather precocious 12-year-old son, Ally. Sid, who thinks Easy Street is just around the corner, needs $5300 to pay off debts and retain the hotel. So he phones his stupid but well-heeled brother Max in New York and drops a half-truth about Ally's poor health. Whereupon Max and wife Sophie fly down and want to take Ally home with them or marry Sid off to a wealthy young widow; but Sid prefers women's company without responsibility, particularly...