Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris, just like hundreds of other Frenchmen, he stopped to gawk at the site of the attempted assassination. Full of scorn for the bungled job, which police still attribute to the right-wing Secret Army Organization (S.A.O.), De Gaulle cracked: "You know, those birds of the S.A.O. are as stupid as the fellows who guard...
...Bullwinkle Show (NBC, 7-7:30 p.m.). PREMIERE of a comedy-variety show starring a blanket-eared, walleyed, stupid-looking, but amusing moose and other pasteboard beasts. Color...
...again, while their parents gradually lost their minds. Then last season adults began to notice something called Rocky and His Friends, which was new and actually amusing. Rocky, a squirrel, was uncute enough, but it was one of his friends that particularly attracted attention-a blanket-eared, wall eyed, stupid-looking, oafish moose. This moose-whose mother in a flash of lyricism had named him Bullwinkle-made it so big with the big people that he now has his own show in prime evening time...
...thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. I'd build me a little cabin somewhere with the dough I made. I'd build it right near the woods, but not right in them, because I'd want it to be sunny as hell all the time...
Anger & Pride. Then came Indo-China. There, once questioning an intelligent, Paris-educated national who was now fighting for the Communist Viet Minh, Larsan heard a criticism of France that was hard to deny: it was "too generous with us and too hard . . . too intelligent and too stupid." France was perfectly willing to pass on its culture, but Frenchmen were never really willing to accept natives as equals, and so, as in all colonial rule, "a moment comes when there's too much accumulated anger on one side and too hard a carapace of pride on the other...