Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Jack Lemmon, 40, Hollywood's funnyman-in-motion (The Great Race); and Felicia Fair, 33, cinemactress (Kiss Me, Stupid): their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles...
...credits to buy free time in a lounge, play a pinball machine, purchase clothing, even to earn a private room. The system works: one group of boys advanced 2½ grades in three months. This bears out the contention of training school teachers that their kids are far from stupid, even though most have been kicked out of at least one school and are two or more grades behind their age level. They range normally in intelligence with other boys but lack motivation...
...Superintendent Cohen that he was going to go straight and land a job driving "the biggest damn truck in the world." A few years later he drove a huge tractor-trailer right up to the Warwick gates. Another boy told Cohen: "Warwick gave me eyes. I ain't stupid no more. I can read...
...education speech by Governor Grant Sawyer, accused .him of "irresponsible leadership" in bucking most educational problems to the rural-dominated legislature. When an official of the Nevada Taxpayers Association called Newcomer's school budget phony, Newcomer said the man "either can't read, or he's stupid, or he's dishonest...
...rates more admiration than veteran Diplomat Averell Harriman, "who said what he believed and cared not a damn for anything but getting the policy right." He was known among Foggy Bottom types as "the Crocodile," reports Schlesinger, "for his habit of abruptly biting off proposals which seemed to him stupid or irrelevant...