Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...couldn't tell whose side Giraudoux was on. And I wasn't even left with that everybody-loses-most-of-the-time wistfulness one feels at the end of most of those. Nineteenth Century demi-tragedies where everybody loses. My only strong emotion was that Lucille was a pretty stupid girl...
...summing-up of their latest oversimplified, sometimes fatuous but, as usual, highly readable attack on U.S. policy in Southeast Asia. Returning after seven years to the ancient and mythical kingdom of Sarkhan, where they first discovered The Ugly American, they find the usual ragtag group of bumbling, arrogant and stupid Americans. The Communists, of course, are as smart as ever. Even smarter. For, instead of being satisfied slowly to win over the Sarkhanese masses because the Americans are too lazy to learn their language and customs, the Communists are plotting a fraudulent invasion of the tiny kingdom so that...
...wonder then that the industry is confounded by the outsized success of NBC's Get Smart! Thumbing its nose at the rule book, Smart features an impossibly stupid hero, and deformed and sometimes nonwhite villains. Yet it is near the top of the ratings...
Tree Tenements. They were elegant and graceful in flight, slow and stupid-seeming on the ground, and fatally gregarious. When they settled in to feed or rest, they would funnel down, out of the sky, filling every branch and foothold, stacking up on one another's backs a dozen deep, splintering weak branches, toppling whole dead trees to the ground. They nested in only slightly less congestion, spreading out over scores of square miles, making every tree a kind of arboreal tenement...
...they don't die first. At any rate, the case is probably the most spectacular instance of the curative powers of opera, although Voltaire later observed that attending it was good for the digestion. Otherwise, the great philosopher had no use for opera. "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken," he said, "is sung...