Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mind if I get up and start swinging in the aisles." He chuckled. They were going to hear Benny. I asked them if they knew what kind of stuff Goodman was going to play. The look on the husband's face told me I had asked a stupid question. "Great stuff," he replied simply. When we reached the Symphony Hall stop, the whole car emptied. The old people, the middle-aged people, the college students, the ten-year-olds--we were all going to hear Benny play his great stuff...
Richard W. Edelman '76, another student in the class, said yesterday, "It's so stupid. Two people cheated...
Roots showed me that my ancestors weren't stupid, ignorant savages just a little higher than monkeys. It helped me understand that my ancestors were not always slaves...
Worship Cupid, but Don't Be Stupid! advises a press release put out by Zero Population Growth, Inc. A Valentine received by some Americans last week, inscribed Love ... Carefully, was equipped with a red condom. But few young couples in the U.S. today need antinatalist exhortations or equipment. Since 1957 the fertility rate has dropped from a peak of 3.76 children per woman to a record low of 1.75 last year. Though it may rise in the next 30 years, it is highly improbable that Americans in the foreseeable future will again engage in the great procreational spree...
...native village to the south, in Andalusia. He has little money and no nostalgia for the scenes of past battles. All Resales possesses is macho dignity and the bitter sense that "he had been robbed of 37 years of his life-his life in the Alpujarras-by some stupid idea, some cause. What a stupidity...