Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author, is "the cult of virility," and woman's fate is to be "enslaved and betrayed." On the reader's acceptance of this arch axiom teeters this over-suave tale. Its stagy business, and that of the Duchess of Combon de Triton, is to make her "appallingly stupid" cluke the first faithful husband in Spanish history. Her scheme is to win his compassion by feigning illness and his awe by submitting to surgical cures without anesthesia or a whimper. Some 30 agonizing operations later, the duke commits suicide. Now the widow, whose "only joy is to make others...
...This is a very insane cheer--I just made it up," said Leslie A. Levis '67. "This is a high school cheer that I think has very little relation to reality," said Sarah Schoenntgen '67, "I guess this is pretty stupid but it's meant to be funny," said Anne V. Downer...
Apparently any story, no matter how simple or stupid, can be made to hold an audience's attention. It isn't the import, it isn't the lines; it's seeing live people perform. For with the slenderest of ideas, a bit of showmanship, and the sense not to overdo, Schwartz kept more than 100 people in their seats for almost an hour and a half--and kept them from fidgeting...
...late one night last week, some stupid crooks got into Morgan Hall and went to work. Next morning, the caretaker discovered the results. Gone were 22 gems, which amounted to one of the biggest hauls in history...
...loser? It seems hard to believe, for he had a deep respect for Camus. Besides Sartre has had Simone, a series of best-sellers, and seven years to recover. Now when the honor which was sooner or later to be his has come it seems a rather ineffectual and stupid gesture to refuse. Peter R. Berreill...