Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash." Too often, the difference was between the dedicated professionalism of the samurai and the bumbling optimism of U.S. commanders who maintained until the moment of attack that the Japanese would never be "stupid enough" to attack the mighty Pacific fleet and were incapable of mounting an independent carrier striking force...
Playing opposite Thorn Babe, however, is a demanding assignment for anyone. Praising this versatile actor's performances can become monotonous, but there seems little he cannot do magnificently. Babe made the good pastor ingenuous without making him stupid, introspective but not self-centered. And Babe did not have to salvage the production single-handedly...
...during a fracas in a Cincinnati restaurant. Faced with up to three years in prison, Robinson pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed weapon, got off with a reprimand and a $250 fine. He arrived at spring training to confront fuming Manager Fred Hutchinson. Said Hutchinson: "That was a stupid thing to do." "It was," agreed Robby. "But sometimes a man learns from his stupidities...
...social standing of one's family hardly mattered, but behavior did," she says, neatly listing all those traits (such as wearing angora collars) which marked a girl as "irretrievably stupid...
...legend of how Don Juan was carried to hell. It is a striking sequence, invested with Bergman's typicalaly nightmarish quality. But it makes no sense, and has no relation to the story. The vicar's wife, on hearing the legend, becomes upset and cries: "Life is a stupid comedy. No one can understand it." At this point, most of the audience is inclined to agree with...