Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Woman: "You're looking at the wrong end, stupid...
Rafferty himself did not seem worried. He came from behind in both his 1962 campaign and this year's primary race against Kuchel. Besides, he has little use for polls. "The pollsters in California are flagrant liars," he storms. "Their polls are phony, stupid and rigged." They are nothing of the sort, but Rafferty may not be entirely unjustified in ignoring their September samplings. In California, the nation's most populous state and growing more so at the rate of 1,200 people a day, it is a commonplace that everything can change in 24 hours...
...this Romeo and Juliet had been produced in 1956, there might have been no need for West Side Story the following year. "I wanted to bring the story to the attention of young people," says Director Franco Zeffirelli. "The story is of two urchins crushed by a stupid, banal quarrel with origins even the adults don't know. In love the young couple found an ideal - one they could die for - and youth today is hungry for ideals...
...Lucan had not commanded troops for 17 years; "the melancholy truth" about Cardigan, as Woodham-Smith put it, "was that his glorious golden head had nothing in it." At the front, battles with the Russians were hardly less bitter than the internecine wrangling between the two commanders. Finally, a stupid order was fatally misinterpreted. As thousands of Russian soldiers watched in disbelief, some 700 men of Hussars, Lancers and Dragoons -the Light Brigade-charged a massed front of several thousands. When the cordite smoke blew away, only 195 British soldiers were alive...
...some of the play's funniest and most important moments come as Moliere is pointing out what stupid situations people get themselves into when blinded by pride...