Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since plain American speech suffices only to describe the real world, a new vocabulary must be coined annually at colleges, where all experience has a heightened tone and ordinary superlatives falter. Life calls for adjectives that mean better than best, viler than vile, cooler than cool. The contemptibly stupid, the awesomely brilliant and the inexpressibly attractive all demand labels more vivid than last year's. This winter's college slang is real unreal...
Less than a week before that statement, Buddhist Spokesman Thich Tam Chau had flatly announced that the South Vietnamese government of Premier Tran Van Huong "will have to go." Three days after the statement, a Buddhist communique called the Premier "stupid, a traitor, a fat, stubborn man without any policy." In Saigon, Huong replied pluckily: "If the situation gets out of hand, we must again use force. They simply want to control the government. The Viet Cong are also trying to overthrow this government. We can't allow the Buddhist leaders to do this for them...
...appears that he and anyone else the U.S. wants may be coming home. Last week, after 17 years of formal negotiation, the U.S. and Brazil exchanged extradition agreements, effective Dec. 17. Says a U.S. embassy official in Rio: "Any criminal who flees to Brazil would be plain stupid...
...Ginsberg; he might as well have put on a winter overcoat. It wasn't a big deal to him, one way or the other. He had almost twenty years on me. A free man, he'd been through psychoanalysis, Buddhism, hallucinogens, and come to terms with himself. I felt stupid...
...Arms and Legs" is wretchedly written by Jeffrey Steingarten, but "Re: Little Al," by S. T. Wyrick, is so unbelievably stupid and immature that it's good or, maybe, "camp." An unfortunate named Aldrich wrote a story called "No Native Dancer He." One product of his poetic sensibilities: "And everywhere around the floor that we tripped and shuffled was left a brimming tide of sweat...