Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many other gay people--what I had been building for nine years. Ms. Bryant brought gay rights out of the closet--she focused the issue very well: the issue was whether or not our society would treat homosexuals as inferior and as dangerous. She made many straights realize how stupid they sounded, and by sounding amazingly like Wallace in 1961 or Goldwater in 1964, she made many straights realize that they had not thought out their positions on gay rights very well...
...after coming from behind to win in two of their first three bouts, the women started to heed the advice of knowledgeable onlookers. "Keep It Simple, Stupid," the onlookers yelled, and the team kissed SMU goodbye...
...response, Toffler said, "You may be underestimating this feeling of dissatisfaction with our political and social system. People are not stupid, nor are they complacent...
...MANY STUPID THINGS have been on T.V. since we all started watching it, but perhaps nothing ever on T.V. that could legitimately be written about in this column was more stupid than the Famous National Magazine Show last week, followed, closely, in second, by the Salute to the Beatles (not to be confused with the infinitely superior Beatlemania, which is lousy itself, to give you an idea of how lousy) on the other network (or was it the same network?), featuring 12 people I guarantee you who when the Beatles first came out were already so old that they could...
...change in attitude? Explains Eugene Jennings, a professor of management at Michigan State University: "People are rejecting the values of a mobile lifestyle. It was once considered stupid not to move when a company suggested it. Now the immobiles are coming out of the woodwork and saying no." There are already enough of these naysayers to form what Brandeis Psychologist Grace Baruch characterizes as "a critical mass that makes it O.K. to say, 'Maybe the job doesn't come first...