Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Howard Greenfield, another Aldon writer, has had 14 hits since he abandoned his job as a messenger boy four years ago and arrived as a composer with Stupid Cupid. "What we do is take an adult idea and bring it on down to the kids' level," he says. "I figure we have 2½ minutes to grab interest, change pace and paint pictures. A pop song is like a movie-it's a little escape...
Couples recline, neuroses entwine, and Benny, friendly, polite and stupid, gets drunk and inadvertently invents the mad fad of yo-yoing. To yoyo, one gets piggy-drunk, falls asleep in the subway, and rides back and forth all night. The yo-yo who makes the most trips is champion, and the crosstown shuttle does not count...
...oversized jacket. But a box of crackers is too large and causes a bulge. He is terrified that he will be spotted. The clerk looms larger than Cyclops. Trembling and stuttering, the old man slinks out, paying only for some cough drops. Once outside, he laughs contemptuously at the "stupid schwartzes'' who let him escape...
...point of view is that of a person who dislikes Communism intensely as an anti-liberal perversion of social unrest and of a person who believes that enlightened American private enterprise has a creative role to play in Latin America. My conclusion is that our policy towards Cuba is stupid...
...policy in Cuba is stupid because it makes it impossible for us to influence Cuba. We gain nothing by cutting her off from us. I do not think the Castro regime will fall because of our economic pressure. On the contrary. I rather think that our policy strengthens the Castro regime by giving it a powerful Yanqui enemy. I do not think that our policy in Cuba will deter revolutionaries elsewhere in Latin America by its threat of sanctions. On the contrary, I think our policy only confirms their expectations...