Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house committee of the professor's apartment building. Sharik the dog becomes "Sharikov" the Soviet citizen. He is supplied with identity papers and, except for a tendency to chase cats, is indistinguishable from any other member of the ruling mass. That is to say, Bulgakov suggests, he is stupid, foulmouthed, disrespectful, noisily political, vodka-soaked, treacherous and fond of hideous neckties. After some thought, the professor chloroforms him and reverses the operation. The intolerable Sharikov again becomes Sharik...
There are those members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences who will serve on committees and those who won't. One very well-known professor here is reported to have intentionally acted as stupid as possible on committees he has been on just to keep from being asked to join others...
...dangerous. To hear what they're yelling, we walk quietly (so they won't really notice) to within a door of Beta. A Jock yells, "You lousy Puke motherfuckers." He mocks them with their own rhetoric. A Puke screams back more of the same and adds that they're stupid...
...understand it, there are three rules. First, never criticize any action by the students, no matter how stupid, extreme, or wrong it may be; Second, never say anything good about the Administration, mention compromises they were willing to make, problems they've had, or the like: Third, realize that Columbia is never to be seen as an educational institution, and that its educational function is never to be hinted at. No, Columbia is the first step, our Boston Tea Party, our Bastille. As the current New Left Notes says, we're not strong enough yet to take over the state...
...bright. He doesn't even have a heart of gold; Gary Cooper would never have left a wounded pal to bleed his life away in a wagon outside while he loaded up on rotgut in a saloon. That's what Will Penny does, sitting there, scruffy and stupid, upending the bottle and croaking, "Sure burns a dollar's worth." It looks as if this is going to be an interesting experiment in antiheroics amid the great open spaces...