Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Terence Stamp, as Billy Budd, is authentically simple. When he prefaces his hanging with the slightly reminiscent cry, "God bless Captain Vere," he does not portray Christ; he is a touching, naive sailor unable to understand the evil around him. He seems insanely stupid, yet real, when he fails to understand Claggart's malice and vengeful eyes...
Plucky, Not Stupid. But not everyone was ready to tumble from his easy chair and into his hiking boots. A California radio announcer shunned the forced marches, made plans instead for a "restathon," vowing he would attempt 20 nonstop hours in the sack. Even psychiatrists got into the act. In San Francisco one shrugged that the hikers were merely seeking "ego boosters." "The one who does it can look down contemptuously on the one who can't," said he, looking down even more contemptuously...
...others for some time, its full significance was pressed upon me as a result of a six-mile hike last Sunday. I have done little walking since then, except to go from my office to the White House dispensary." Pleaded Pierre: "I may be plucky, but I am not stupid...
...claimed they were too favorable to France. His Francophobia deepened with the years, and in 1957 he warned the U.S. against relying on France to defend Europe, adding querulously: "I don't know why the world doesn't catch on to those French-they're stupid, weak, stubborn and selfish." After Morocco won its independence. King Mohammed V tried to placate the old exile and persuade him to return home. He sent a donation of $14,000, but Krim refused the money and threw away the royal letter because it addressed him as a plain subject...
Voice: Lissen, you stupid broad, don't you know it's against the FCC to hog the channel? Whyn't you shut up for a while? I'm gonna complain to the FCC about...