Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...claiming that the Korth letters were illegal or involved a conflict of interest. They were, however, described as "improper" and "awfully stupid." At week's end, Korth gave newsmen copies of more than 200 letters, admitted that some of them showed that he maintained "an interest in the welfare of the bank." But he denied that any "of these instances in any way involved my official responsibilities." Added Korth: "I deeply resent any insinuation that these few trivial incidents and communications raise a question concerning my character." Korth, who spent last week in Bethesda Naval Medical Center...
...play shows how prejudice, blind stupidity, and love of convention combine to kill an innocent young man, but it never lets the audience stop laughing. Even when the dead man rises, still wrapped in his shroud, to tell the audience it is going to hell, the viewers laugh and applaud--the threat comes in the form of a jingle. Behan fails to make his audience seem stupid; he merely demonstrates that a clever playwright can confuse his house...
There is always a tendency to "romanticize" the Negro, said Wakefield. He described the evolution of Jim-Crowism--"All Negroes are lazy, stupid, and have rhythm"--into "Crow Jimism"--"All Negroes are intelligent, industrious, artistic, and have rhythm...
...deceptively mild-looking, with a tidy black mustache, a trilby hat and a walking cane. Humility warmed his wide brown eyes. He liked to think of himself as a kind man, and to say that he could forgive the world its sins because they were more stupid than wicked. But though forgiveness came easy, David Low, who died last week at 72, could not bring himself to overlook either stupidity or wickedness. For 60 years he attacked them both with brilliant and unparalleled ferocity. His weapon was the cartoonist's brush...
...this Elbe of verbiage Director De Sica sinks without a bubble. In scene after scene he simply aims his camera at a famous face and hopes for the best. He seldom gets it. Loren looks stupid in a stupid part. Schell, in a role demanding virility and violence, behaves like a hysterical girl. March, for want of anything better to play, plays March. Wagner at least gives the customers something to snicker at. His sunny California accent sounds gloriously silly in foggy old Hamburg, and when he walks in to take over the family firm, he looks wildly...