Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Skiddy Von Stade, dean of freshman, belongs to that strong minority at the College that believes that the current way freshmen go about selecting their House--and the House selecting them--is a stupid, and even dangerous, waste of time...
Speaking at International Relations Council's China Conference last night, Morgenthau called the use of non-lethal gases against the Vietcong "a stupid policy" that has succeeded only "in making millions of people morally sick...
After he pleaded guilty last week, sentencing was postponed until May. The maximum penalty is death, but Thompson said to newsmen: "I want to take what's coming to me. I made a bad mistake when I was 22. I was stupid." No one could fault him on that...
...responsible ourselves for a lot of bad things that happen to us; that blacks, at home and here in Africa or in Haiti or where have you, are just as capable of dropping the hammer on each other, of shooting, killing, and maltreating each other in the brutal and stupid ways that human beings have dealt with each other since they rose up from the apes...
Bernstein's fellow philosophy professors had unanimously recommended him for a tenure vacancy, and Professor Paul Weiss called the committee's decision "stupid, unfair, dismaying." Professor Robert S. Brumbaugh pointed out that under the committee's criteria, "we could not have gotten tenure for Aristotle when he was 32, we could not have gotten it for Kant, and on a much homelier level, I could not have gotten it." After the wave of criticism, the committee decided to consider reopening the case...