Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Instead of learning the realtionship between social transformations and the way people talk, we are told reporters are too self-important, politicians too aftaid of being spontaneous, social scientists too attached to impressive-sounding jargon. As for the common, non-proffessional man, well, he comes across as just plain stupid...
...hang on a wall as the equal of a painting, it has to hang as a photograph and a photograph alone, not as an attempt to use photographic tools to produce a painterly result. The face of the real world is simply too recalcitrant and ugly for a camera, stupid, fast instrument that it is, to realize a creator's dream...
...talk. He can. But he just gets the job done..."; and when one of the hangers-on in attendance, an old Boston football expert asked by the M.C. to explain why that week's games had been such high-scoring affairs, answered: "This may sound like a stupid remark, but now you've got a lot of colored boys playing football, and they're damn good athletes who put a lot of pep into the game...
...France's former Culture Minister Andre Malraux and British Poet-Critic Stephen Spender. An indignant committee of Nobel laureates called upon U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to complain. Novelist Saul Bellow was so angry that he exploded at an international P.E.N. congress in Jerusalem last week: "They are stupid, ignorant, partisan. And I think they are a lot of swine...
Turner, despite his taciturn and obstinate gruffness, could be pricked to tears by a stupid notice. "Soapsuds and whitewash!" he complained to Ruskin. "I wonder what they think the sea's like? I wish they'd been in it!" Turner's most Leonardesque aspect was the deep pessimism that went with his long investigation of nature. In the works of his maturity, human life is merely an eddy in elemental time. His love of full-bore catastrophe is indicated by the most Turneresque of all his titles, an Alpine scene: Snowstorm, Avalanche and Inundation...