Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles H. McGlue, chairman of the Wallace fund-raising drive in Massachusetts, issued a warning yesterday to anyone "stupid enough" to demonstrate against Wallace at the Common today. McGlue said that off-duty police and firemen will be on hand to form a bodyguard for their candidate, and that "protesters will find there are a lot of people to take them...
...charges levied against Fortas--his alleged involvement with a Communist-dominated legal group in the early thirties, his vote to exclude a few cheap skin flicks from classification as hard-core pornography, and the contention that his booklet on civil disobedience "condoned lawlessness"--were clearly distorted, irrelevant, and fundamentally stupid. And Senator J. Strom Thurmond's infantile harassment of Justice Fortas during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings did nothing to enhance the dignity of either the senate or the court...
...always get things wrong." Newspapers always get things wrong; a truth we all learned from Rosenthal's hilarious reporting from Columbia. So why not put them on. "What do you think of Beethoven?" "I love him," said Ringo. "Especially his poems." Fuck them all if they think we're stupid...
...young male hustler. All of them are compelled to pretend to one another and to themselves that they are having a good time. A good time is "having a lot of laughs," and their laughter-inane, drunken, forced-explodes and cackles frantically throughout the film. They feed one another stupid jokes, lies and childish games to keep the laughter coming. When it cracks, the bewilderment and despair leak out into the room and turn the laughers sick, self-pitying or snarling...
...There can be no innocent bystanders at a time of civil disturbance or the repression thereof. The involvement of press and television personnel is even more stupid than that of the public. The veriest Fourth Estate tyro should know that a police officer faced with an unruly mob is too busy to check his press card. The sanctimoniousness of McCarthy and Ribicoff, particularly, was too obvious. The police force in Chicago was the only thing that made it possible for McCarthy's heart to bleed in comparative privacy and for Ribicoff to speak of "police brutality" and "Gestapo tactics...