Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next turn to the ugly slash of a strip mine, where the people seem more alive and you can get killed as easy as next Saturday night. A lot of days I'm glad I have Boston and The New York Times and the current cinema. I make up stupid country songs and laugh at the women's circle of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Clendenin (South); but O God: there are times when I want to go home so bad, just sit on the porch with a glass of bourbon and watch smoke curl out of my father...
...heavily at roulette-his favorite number was 32-puzzled his friends. They believed his skill as a risk-taking businessman would have told him when to quit. Says an old Ladbroke's hand: "We could never understand how a man so clever in business could be so stupid as to sit there all night throwing money away." One friend blamed Sir Hugh's failed marriages for causing a "glandular imbalance" that impaired his gambler's instinct and made him stay far too long at the wheels. He certainly did not learn from his father, who also enjoyed...
While Suárez listened impassively on the blue leather government bench, Blas Piñar, head of an ultra-right group calling itself Fuerza Nueva (New Force) attacked the reform as a "stupid mask." Another right-wing coalition, the Popular Alliance, threatened that its more than 100 members would abstain from voting unless majority representation replaces the government's proposal that seats in the lower house be allotted by proportional representation. In the end, Alliance leaders and other conservatives were satisfied by a modest technical compromise on voting procedures...
...More Joy of Sex. But this time British Author Alex Comfort, 56, is trying for a pop bestseller on old age, not sexual hydraulics. A Good Age (Crown; $9.95) is Comfort's attack on "agism"-prejudice against the elderly, which he considers society's most stupid bias. After all, the elderly are the only outcast group that everyone eventually expects to join. "I wonder," says Comfort, "what Archie Bunker would say about Puerto Ricans if he knew he was going to become one on his next birthday...
...What a stupid question. How far a drive is it, after all, to New Hampshire, where the liquor stores are open eight days a week? See you around the ballot...