Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Noted the "amazing" charge by Soviet Dictator Nikita Khrushchev (see FOREIGN NEWS) that U.S. efforts to develop a "clean" H-bomb amounted to "a stupid thing," replied promptly that "avoidance of mass human destruction in an atomic war is and has been a prime objective of the Administration no less than the aim of eliminating the possibility of war itself. Such efforts-to which the U.S. is dedicated-are and will be continuing...
Family Man. Cried Khrushchev in Czechoslovakia last week: "What will the policy be like? This is a stupid question. What will happen? Everybody knows what will happen. We will do the same, but with more emphasis." The emphasis where peace was concerned: "Trust in God, but look out for yourselves. When you walk among dogs, don't forget to carry a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for, to bite when he feels like it." On the subject of controlling the people: "The party leadership must not be divorced from the ranks of the party...
...benevolence and melting concern for peace and prosperity. Tossing away a party-prepared oration at a workers meeting in Czechoslovakia last week, Khrushchev gave vent to some tough talk about Tito. "Now certain clever boys begin criticizing us. They say you have done this badly and that stupidly. Listen, dears, where were you when we started the Revolution?" Nikita made clear that he was talking of Tito by telling Yugoslav journalists present not to put down what he had to say, that he would soon tell Tito to his face. "The front of the revolutionary working class must be broadened...
Lapses that might have cut short the careers of some scarcely detract from Paco Malgesto's prestige. One day, as he walked through a bullfight crowd with a portable microphone, he held out the mike to a stranger, who said, "You are a stupid bastard." "No sir," replied Paco, "it is you who are the bastard," and handed the mike back to the stranger. The pair traded obscenities for five minutes. That one cost Paco a 1,000-peso fine...
...Shaw will not let one off with a simple dichotomy; clearly there is a paradox and Hell is not all it's cracked up to be. Don Juan, the hero, chooses to escape to Heaven, while the stupid, if pitiable, Ramsden prefers to prolong his visit to the pleasure pots of Hell. No review can do justice to an interpretation of the play, but suffice to say that Man and Superman has paradoxes, ambivalences, and deeper meanings which the actors present clearly and without strain...