Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Naked Emperors. Goya's foreign contemporaries -Guardi, Gainsborough, Fragonard-specialized in elegance. Goya did too, but instinctively pricked the bubbles he blew, fastening on the frivolous, pompous and stupid personalities inside the fine clothes of his noble sitters. Like the naked emperor of the fable, they seemed not to notice. Charles IV made him court painter and gave him a carriage. Occasionally Goya was commissioned to portray a beautiful woman, which enabled him to exhibit a warmer side. Friends who sat for him got off lightly; he could still admire...
...Please permit me to join with you in saluting the great sculptor, Carl Milles, on his 80th birthday. As for your comments on my work, they are maliciously stupid, uncalled for, and certainly in poor taste...
...last week, "the more he finds himself in a sort of squirrel's cage . . . running around pretty rapidly . . . and at times feeling he is merely chasing himself." But the President promised the people he would persevere "because, from my mind, to my mind, it is perfectly stupid for the world to continue to put so much in these agencies and instrumentalities that cost us so much . . ." In preliminary talks before the parley, the U.S. delegation significantly stopped talking about "disarmament" in favor of a new phrase-"limitation of arms."; The U.S. attitude is that total disarmament and controls...
...good decision "there is something that forced it to make that decision, and even that the Soviet Union fears some catastrophe if it does not." Let me tell you, said Khrushchev, letting go of Walmsley's coat but grasping his arm instead, such speculation is "a fantasy of stupid people." Lowering his voice and looking around to see that no ladies could hear, he confided to the Americans: "We say of those people who think this way: 'If a mother-in-law is unfaithful, she would not believe in the faithfulness of her son's wife...
...hoping on the little road that led to Zelda's sanitarium." He wrote her: "Do you remember before keys turned in locks, when life was a closeup and not an occasional letter, that I hated to swim naked from the rocks while you liked absolutely nothing better? Still stupid with grief, I find these are the only quarrels I remember." And Zelda could only reply: "Oh Dodo, Dodo, I love you anyway, even if there isn't any me or any love, or even life, I love...