Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corporation teashirt, stupid bloody tuesday man you been a naughty...
...Tedders. His private life was deplorable. He married Jane Burden, a beautiful but unusually stupid woman who had been his model when he was half thinking of being a painter. The daughter of a groom, she devoted most of her life to having the vapors and impersonating one of those large-eyed, long-necked ladies in the once admired paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In fact, it was Rossetti who persuaded Jane to marry Morris. Small wonder that Morris came to regard his devious painter pal as "sometimes an angel, sometimes a damned scoundrel...
...chain-smoking entrepreneur, who values his assets at $92 million and his liabilities at more than $85 million, could be wiped out. Says he: "I can't tell how close to bankruptcy I am. It's up to the creditors. If the creditors don't take stupid action, like American Seating, I'm convinced I can bring them all out whole...
Ignorance Is Stupid. Antiwar humanities professors tend to see Government-imposed secrecy on research as a clear violation of academic freedom. Scientists argue that university regulations forbidding them to undertake such work are equally a violation. Pittsburgh's John Horty, who directed a classified project to collect U.S. treaties and documents affecting defense agreements with other nations-and found the techniques equally applicable to the assembling of nonsecret documents-believes that academic freedom is supposed to "guard against emotionalism." He thinks "temporarily unpopular research" should be protected against the "emotionalism" of those who oppose...
...benefits are always unequal. No system of law and order has been politically neutral in practice. At the present moment in the United States, law and order protects those who conduct, support, and profit from a war that more and more of us regard as atrociously cruel and strategically stupid. It protects the right of Dow Chemical and similar groups to recruit students for this general purpose. To a vastly lesser extent it also protects those of us who feel outraged by this situation. In effect we are told that we may protest as much as we like--as long...