Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really wild eccentricity without fear of voting-booth reprisals. When Young is displeased by a letter--whether or not it comes from a constituent--he writes a thoroughly nasty response. For example: "Dear Sir: It appears to me that you have been grossly misinformed, or are exceedingly stupid. Which...
...bedroom, but is increasingly being brought into the bathroom. Even caustic Cartoonist Jules Feiffer says: "It's astounding what's allowable today." The gentle comedies that once titillated the town have been replaced by such farces as What's New Pussycat? and Kiss Me, Stupid, in which playboyesque exaggeration has been substituted for wit. Contemporary audiences are largely unshockable; to build up enough pressure to get a laugh, humorists have begun to abandon sex to take up the grave topic of death, as in The Loved One, proudly promoted as a picture "with something to offend everyone...
...discussion soon moved to the expectations that people built up on the basis of these stereotypes. Millicent Brown, the first Negro in South Carolina to attend an integrated school, told about the children who ran past her in the halls during the first few weeks shouting "Stupid! Stupid! Stupid...
...melting process. In retrospect, Kennedy's discovery might seem obvious, but the startling truth is that generations of scientists overlooked it. "The profession must be full of asses," says Nobel Prize Chemist Willard Libby, discoverer of the carbon-14 dating process. "How can anyone be so stupid as not to have seen...
...there no way of checking on such things as this? It would seem that the customer no longer has to be right but just to be stupid...