Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with sweat and snake venom, since 1940. Peering out from its ragged brim with his satyrlike half-smile, the snake man looks rather like an ageless faun out of pagan mythology. At his death, he intends to have his body thrown to the hyenas since "one of the most stupid premises is that life is, in some peculiar way, sacred...
...assassins who fall to the basso's lot. Being the villain, he finds, helps him "get rid of a lot of anxiety," and besides, a basso's roles are more convincing dramatically. "Can you imagine," he says, "having to make something out of a character as stupid as Leonora? I'd feel a perfect fool...
...founder and chairman of the Bank of America, Fortune Pope, 43, has been sometimes spoken of as the outstanding figure in the huge (more than 4,000,000) U.S. Italian-American community. Yet last week, standing before a New York federal judge, Fortune and Anthony Pope were branded "incredibly stupid," fined $25,000 each and given a year's suspended jail sentence...
What made the judge call the Popes stupid was an odd situation. The brothers were transferring funds between companies that were two-thirds or wholly owned by them and their families. Since they have enough shares to control Colonial, they did not have to solicit proxies, thus could have avoided making a false proxy statement. Whatever mysterious reasons the Popes had for the transfer (they have since returned $405,817 to Colonial), the judge chided the freewheeling brothers for ignoring their "definite responsibility to public stockholders...
...What a stupid way to handle things," Sullivan declared. He said he could not understand why McGeorge Bundy worked to swing Republican votes against him. "I was led to believe in conversations with Charlie Whitlock that Bundy was in favor of the project before he went to Washington," Sullivan maintained...