Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fourth house is a good idea, but not having any off-campus housing if stupid," said Winifred Shaw '65. "I user' to think it didn't matter, but it does, because people matter. Off-campus houses have always been a good place for renegade people, for creative people. They are an ideal compromise between the regimentation of a large dormitory and the isolation of separate apartments...
...would put her back together again. McDowall and Whitman, tending the rose garden, make thorny work of it. And Actress Bacall, woefully miscast, exercises her steel-and-velvet charm as if she were running a rest home for demented Bunnies. Bacall's throatiest, most telling line: "I detest stupid people who think they can fake mental illness." Fortunately, nobody need submit to Shock Treatment unless he is dragged in screaming...
Blessed Monk. Esthete Makarios comes of earthy origins. He was born Michael Mouskos in 1913 in the coastal village of Panayia. His father, a typical gnarled and baggy-trousered peasant, recalls that he was a "bad goatherd," and thought him rather stupid. Not so the abbot of Kykko monastery, who was attracted by young Michael's intelligence when the boy became a novice at the age of 13; he later took the name Makarios, which means "blessed." By entering Kykko, which was founded eight centuries ago high in the Troodos Mountains, and is today the wealthiest monastery in Cyprus...
...Billy Wilder four months ago. "To be asked by someone he likes," replied the wife of Ira Gershwin, 67. So Billy asked, and Lyricist Gershwin went back to work for the first time in nine years. Told he could team with anyone on Wilder's upcoming Kiss Me, Stupid, Ira replied that the music would be by his brother...
...program that will pour out more than 80 million tons a year of mineral fertilizer as well as other synthetics, Khrushchev said that, with help, Russia by 1971 would have a chemical industry comparable to any that Western countries have taken decades to build. Said he: "It would be stupid to ignore the achievements of foreign science only because they were made in a capitalist country. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin did not consider it a shame to learn from the capitalists...