Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first, the idea of such facilities so near the Library complex might seem insensitive or even stupid. Pei wants them for a number of reasons, however. Remember a few things: first the Bennett Street site is 12 acres and that's a lot of land. If you don't think so, just walk in some day and start wandering around...
...space conceptualization ("Which of the five following designs is not like the other four?"); reasoning ("If Bill is taller than Bob and Bob is taller than Ed, then Bill is what to Ed?"). Some test experts rate students separately on these abilities. "A person is not smart or stupid in general," explains Harvard Psychologist Gerald S. Lesser. "He can be smart and stupid at the same time. Each of us is better at certain things than at others...
...Friendship. But to Joe's profound dismay, his daydreams do not come true. No fur-lined apartments, no nymphomaniacal millionairesses. Pretty soon he runs out of money and sells himself to a homosexual schoolboy-who takes his pleasure but then cannot pay. Too gentle to take revenge, too stupid to see what is coming, Joe sinks into demoralized destitution. But in the depths he finds a friend, a bright-eyed young cripple named Ratso, and for the first time in his life he is happy. Not for long. The cripple dies of general debilitation, and as the book ends...
...lose a farm bill over this one item would be stupid," reasoned a top House Democratic leader, and the party's high command agreed. So on the eve of the farm-bill debate, Freeman got the news. Instead of saddling millers and bakers−and housewives−with the subsidy, the Government would foot the bill. The cost: between $150 million and $250 million a year. The House then passed the bill, 221 to 172, and sent it to the Senate...
...Francisco and his home in Carmel, has been developing his game theory most of his professional life. It is his contention that the clues to man's irrational behavior can be found in the games he plays. Not tennis and golf and football, but Wooden Leg, Schiemiel, Peasant, Stupid, Let's You and Him Fight, and Now I've Got You, You Son of a Bitch. Some may wonder: These are games? But for those who want out, Berne has a suggestion-it takes two to play...