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Word: stupidity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Well I really don't want to say it but [Harvard men seem to think] we're either stupid or want to jump in. bed or something," one of the girls commented...

Author: By Glenn A. Padnick, | Title: The Lesley College 'Hang-Up': It's So Near and Yet So Far From 'Sophisticated' Harvard | 11/2/1966 | See Source »

...growing popularity of vodka [Oct. 14] reminds me of the Air Force general who admonished his Martini-drinking Pentagon staff to lay off the stuff. "Drink whisky at lunchtime," he told them. "I'd rather have people know you're drunk than think you're stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 28, 1966 | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...Jack Lemmon, a funnyman-in-motion who lacks the instincts of a sit-down comedian, sitting in a wheelchair that makes him seem foolish but never funny. With Lemmon immobilized, only a miracle could save the show from being as sedative as Wilder's last picture, Kiss Me, Stupid. Fortunately, something like a miracle is at hand: Walter Matthau. A magnificent comic actor too long misused as a minor cinemenace, Matthau last year played such a spectacular slob in The Odd Couple that he made himself a major star of the U.S. stage. As the icing on Wilder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Illegal Mind at Work | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

Given this situation, President Johnson's unconditional refusal to consider a halt was unnecessary and stupid. Believing his pledges of peace becomes more difficult every day. If he really wants negotiations, he has boxed himself in once again, and he should start looking for a convenient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vietnam: Escalated Frustration | 10/26/1966 | See Source »

AFTERMATH (London). The Rolling Stones still choke on raw emotion (Paint It Black) and holler Beach-Boyish insults over a throbbing beat (Stupid Girl). But on occasion, now, the wild-eyed quintet become as refined-if not as inventive-as the Beatles, and back up their ballads with dulcimer, sitar or harpsichord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 14, 1966 | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

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