Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From Paddington. Miss Rutherford, you see, observes during the first minute of the movie, a murder on a train running parallel to one on which she is traveling; and naturally enough, her sole object thereafter is to track down the malfeasant. The police, equally naturally, are rather stupid, and think Miss Rutherford's gone barmy. She, consequently, marches fearlessly to the house where she has traced the skulduggery, and in her most formidable dowager's tweeds, and devastatingly sensible shoes, assumes the post of cook-chambermaid, the better to observe the goings...
...tone of voice, you get sick of him, and by the end of the play you would give the price of an orchestra seat to smack him in the face. Louise Latham is terrible as the girl's friend and history teacher, but her part is so stupid it doesn't really matter. Miss Crane is the worst of all as the mother; rarely have I seen anyone who was so obviously acting...
...short, the English Department continues to live in the grand era of Harvard education when it was supposed that under graduates not in Honors were lazy, stupid, and clearly undeserving of a good (not to say liberal) education. Yet the entire set of attitudes underlying the manner in which English is dealt with in the College is not nearly so simple. For it depends very heavily on what the Department considers the purpose of tutorial, and the purpose of teaching English to undergraduates...
Stone was violently critical of Kennedy's policies toward Castro, stating that during his campaign Kennedy had "talked like a vulgar rich man out of Palm Beach" and accusing Adlal Stevenson, American Ambassador in the U.N., of "making stupid speeches on Communist China and telling lies about Cuba...
...Stupid to Worry. If so, the warning was wasted. Too dim-witted to be alarmed, the waterborne Belchen paid no attention to the eager marksmen closing in for the kill. At a range of less than 20 yds., the hunters opened fire. The few Belchen that tried to escape were blasted out of the sky or cut down before they could finish their flailing, loonlike takeoff. The rest of the birds were slaughtered where they sat. Boat oars were used to administer the coup de grâce. Explained one hunter: "If we waited for them to get into...