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Word: stupidity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next Round. Even so, Sorensen cautioned, nothing would be "more stupid and self-defeating than any effort to run Senator Robert F. Kennedy against either President Johnson or Vice President Humphrey in 1968."* Sorensen was aware that it would take a bloody, party-wrecking battle to deny renomination to Johnson. On the other hand, the vice-presidency is not an inconceivable possibility for Kennedy-who badly wanted the second spot in 1964, but may resist it in '68. If Lyndon is in trouble two years hence and Bobby's luster seems capable of pulling him through, the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Consensus by Any Other Name | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...since families are more scattered nowadays. Last week there was even a rush for another of the everydays that American Greetings stocks in its inventory of 10,000 different cards. "Just because you're a Democrat," it goes, "doesn't mean you're odd or obnoxious. Stupid, maybe, but not odd or obnoxious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Hearts & Darts For Far-Aparts | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...FORTUNE COOKIE. Director Billy Wilder (The Apartment; Kiss Me, Stupid) tackles that great pastime, cheating the insurance company. His anti-hero is a leering, sneering shyster lawyer, played by Walter Matthau, who pulls the strings for the supposedly injured party, Jack Lemmon, and ends up stealing the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 11, 1966 | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

...FORTUNE COOKIE. Director Billy Wilder (The Apartment; Kiss Me, Stupid) tackles that great pastime, cheating the insurance company. His antihero is a leering, sneering shyster lawyer, played by Walter Matthau, who pulls the strings for the supposedly injured party, Jack Lemmon, and ends up stealing the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 4, 1966 | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

Robert Edgar is badly miscast as the Captain, who clearly should be fat, stupid, and cruel, not thin as a rail, witty, and effeminate. He does what he does well, but it isn't what he should do. Roger Zim looks the part of the Drum Major who woos Marie, and he has a marvelously deep voice, but his braggadocio is too much a conscious parody of Anthony Quinn or the Marlboro Man; it draws laughs for that reason, but it is not right...

Author: By Andrew T. Weil, | Title: Woyzeck | 11/2/1966 | See Source »

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