Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course. The curious thing about all of this is Woolworth's new-found politico-economic consciousness. It took, after all, years of sit-ins and picketing, thousands of letters and even some jail sentences, to get the chain store to integrate its lunch counters all over the country. Stupid anti-Communist gestures evidently give Woolworth's more serious pocketbook jitters than do widespread movements for expanded democracy and civil rights here at home...
There a change came over the boy. He felt at home with animals as he never had with people, and he did his work well. Mental work, alas, was out of the question. Poor stupid Giuseppe attained to the priesthood only because his bishop passed him without examination...
...composition (L'Enfant Prodigue) in deliberate imitation of Lalo and Delibes, the popular French composers of the day. Debussy was no admirer of either man, or of any other French contemporary. To him Berlioz was "a tremendous humbug, Charpentier was "downright vulgar," Massenet a panderer of "stupid ideas and amateur standards...
...Gentlemen, just because a man works for the federal or the state government does not give him immunity from prosecution for his crimes . . . This applies not only to the most ignorant human being on the face of the earth, but also John F. Kennedy. Little Stupid Brother Robert Kennedy, [Federal Marshal James] Mc-Shane or any other human being...
...some classes. Joan Baez, who has long been thought of as a sort of otherworldly beatnik because of her remote manner, long hair, bare feet and burlap wardrobe, actually felt distaste for these academic bums from the start. "They just lie in their pads, smoke pot, and do stupid things like that," she says...