Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dime-store New Deal." The American Medical Association damned it from the one side as unnecessary, while the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-which has led the political crusade for the Forand bill-damned it from the other as political. New Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert Meyner called it "absolutely stupid," and New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller said that the states would have a hard time ever making it work. Medicare neatly defused the political bomb contained in the Forand bill. But all those who had an interest in a sound program hoped that Congress would...
...School No. 147. Naturally he applied for membership in the Komsomol, the Communist Youth Organization. But just as the classroom vote on him was about to be taken, according to Moscow's Komsomolskaya Pravda, his friend, Vitali, tried to make everyone laugh by asking Sasha a stupid question: "Do you believe in God?" "Yes," replied Sasha in a hushed voice...
...philosophical systems: the hard sell and the soft sell. To Charles Hendrickson Brower, 58, the tall (6 ft. 4 in.), shambling president of Batten, Barton' Durstine & Osborn, "there is no such thing as the hard sell or the soft sell. There is only the smart sell and the stupid sell." Charlie Brewer's smart sell, last week, was the hottest sell in the ad world...
Green Light. One of Nixon's most vexing problems has been to find a tactful way to avoid being a prisoner of the Administration's record. On the heels of his Lincoln declaration, Nixon got a welcome green light from the White House. "He would be absolutely stupid," President Eisenhower told his press conference last week, "if he said that you were going as far as the record of this Administration would carry you and then stop." Added Ike: "If he doesn't say that he is going to build on what has been so far accomplished...
...important direction. The young poet who represents innocence against both its opposites is an egregious failure. He spouts fine writing of one sort or another almost every moment he is on stage, and makes himself constantly obnoxious by being out of period and out of it generally: a verbose, stupid, and mawkish...