Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because these groups failed in their attempt to challenge the crown, the absolutist government in Russia remained absolute. Pipes thinks the peasants had the potential strength to succeed where the others had failed but that they lost the chance because they were politically unaware. Pipes is angry with the "stupid" peasant because he was too lazy to organize as a class to challenge the serfdom that was oppressing him. For this reason, the peasant was "ill-suited for any political system except an authoritarian or anarchistic one," and he let the opportunities of the intelligentsiarun revolution pass...
...cannot understand why no one has commented on the simple fact that the U.S. would have been spared more than $200 billion, more than 50,000 lives, and all the present tragic and so stupid horror of evacuation of Americans, and these poor wretches to whom we owe nothing in any way, shape or form, had our allied air power been permitted to proceed with all-out pinpoint bombing of the Viet Cong's power and supply depots, thus bringing them to their knees and terminating the action long before the year...
...weren't in the match." Muscatine said, "We made stupid mistakes on crucial points...
Gerry Ford is a grass roots politician, blessed with a zest for boring speeches and stupid occasions that would make a Brooklyn borough president proud. But Ford also has a clear conception of himself, and an unequivocal conviction that the country should be run for those people, like himself, who can scramble to the top. "Ford has a gyroscope in his gut that keeps him pointed towards the accepted platitudes of his class, race and milieu." Chilton Williamson Jr. wrote in The Nation...
...Bulgarian Petkoffs, on the other hand, display fierce and stupid loyalty, and despite their new money and active quest for culture, they have not managed to refine their boorish manners. (These unflattering references to the Bulgarian character, incidentally, prompted a riot by Bulgarian students when the play was put on in Vienna...