Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...termed most administrators "stupid, misinformed, and spineless"--the result, he said, of being "well-meaning and devoted." The failure of Berkeley officials to present the real cause and standing of the 1964 Free Speech Movement was one instance he mentioned. Lang said that national newspapers had misrepresented the Movement's structure by claiming communist influence. "The blame," he stated, "must be on the administrators who allowed that to occur...
...other guys were either stupid or gutsy," he continued, "they just went up to the starting line without a question, went out and won the race." If neither McLoone nor Hardin can run today--and McCurdy was hopeful but unsure--then the starters will be Baker, Bob Stempson, Dick Howe, John Heyburn, Peter Dennehy, Trey Burns, and either Frank Sulloway or Erik Roth...
This lack of passion keeps you clean. Student politics is farcical. It is left to former Midwestern student council presidents. There are causes and causes. Issues come and go. You cluck your tongue or nod your head. Eisenhower was dull and stupid; Kennedy had style, you know; the Cuban invasion was bad; the Dominican Republic bit was ridiculous; join the Peace Corps; the Poverty Program should at least be given a chance. And so on and on. Many of us don't sign petitions because, well, what of our political careers...
...cluk your tongue or nod your head. Eisenhower was dull and stupid; Kennedy had style,you known; the Cuban invasion was bad; the Dominican Republic bit was ridiculous; join the Peace Corps; the Poverty Program should at least be given a chance. Many of us don't sign petitions because, well, what of our political careers...
Squalid, vicious, mean and stupid, Pinter's characters may seem to deserve all the bad things in life. They are certainly a thoroughly unsympathetic lot, and not one of them ever performs a generous act. They are animals, but first of all they are theatrical animals. They hold the stage like a military position. An actor long before he became a playwright, Pinter writes scenes with which actors can rivet an audience's attention. His stage animals circle and sniff and snarl and claw at each other, and the odor of vitality permeates the playhouse. These animals have...