Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...costs of immigrant integration, and are supplemented by funds raised by the state of Israel through the heaviest taxation in the world. To argue against the humanitarian work of the Israel Emergency Fund because Israel must buy arms and maintain armed forces to defend itself is vicious or stupid: such an argument would prevent aid to any nation on earth, even if its people were starving, because all maintain armed forces for their defense...
Finally, a third misconception about the Harvard bureaucracy is that things go wrong because they were supposed to go wrong. Harvard administrators, according to this popular image, intentionally do things that are unfair and stupid (such as lose term bill payments, allow the food to get worse, etc.) because they want to. Clearly, most of these things are accidental, and none of them in based on malicious motives. As one Harvard administrators has lamented. "You're lucky if you're right 75% of the time...
...reverent Philistinism, with a broad humor that delights to spread banana peelings in the paths of heroes, a simple pleasure in seeing the aura of sanctity around the traditional arcana as a fog, and a tough honesty that continues to repeat that war is always damnable and tyranny always stupid and persecution always evil, however 'necessary' at any given moment...
...thing that held together the stupid plots of 1930's musicals was the sharp, witty give-and-take between characters--Aline MacMahon fighting with Guy Kibbee, for example. But the pace is so slow in Bogdanovich's film--most of the time the actors shout to each other from across a room--that the little wit he put into the script gets swallowed up by the chandeliers. And Astaire needed the foil of stupid, stuffy Edward Everett Horton to show off his own urbanity. Reynold's counterpart to Horton is his mother, normally silly Mildred Natwick, who breezes...
...into that, so it left us." In fact, the couple came out boldly against drugs, and that was good for nothing but their souls. "The Establishment-which didn't go to concerts-applauded us," says Cher. "The kids -who did go to concerts-thought we were stupid...