Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...funny bowlegged waddle, she talked in an impeccable lower class accent, and she wept like a little girl who wanted attention very badly. But her performance was so consistent and thoroughly thought out that she soon overcame any critical defenses and convinced you that she was a pathetic, rather stupid 41 year old woman...
...warp your social growth and maturity. Every time you see a boy, it takes about a week to recover." Why then do students choose an all-girl or an all-male school? Answers one Vassar junior: "I knew Vassar was all-girl when I came here. But I was stupid when I came here...
...pinup girl. She is currently negotiating a contract with the Pontiac people, who think that her trim chassis is just the right image for their new line of low-slung chariots. Even Daddy is getting into the act: his duet with Nancy on a single called Somethin' Stupid was No. 1 on the bestseller charts last week...
Nobody was spared his wrath, not even he. Sometimes he denounced his own conducting and violently slapped his own face. Once, dissatisfied with the NBC Orchestra's performance of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, he cried, "I was stupid! You were stupid! Only Beethoven was not stupid." Indeed, the music itself was what mattered most to him. All of his talents-his firm beat, fantastic ear, uncanny sense of style and structure, and even his rages-were marshaled toward a faithful re-creation of the composer's intention. During a rehearsal of Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony...
...reconstruct the south. This will still involve casualties but at less risk of world war and with a chance of somewhat diminishing the international odium we have brought upon ourselves. While our barbarity merely rouses fear and hatred that we can learn to live with, our psychological miscalculation seems stupid. Stupidity in a leader arouses distrust in followers all around the world...