Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finds a village and an old woman named Matryona. Slowly sketching her life, Solzhenitsyn presents her as a symbol of ancient Russia, oppressed by czars and commissars alike, but still waiting for fulfillment. "She was considered 'odd' by her sisters," he concludes, "a laughingstock who was so stupid as to work for others without pay. She never accumulated property against the time of her death. A dirty white goat, a crippled cat, and rubber plants were her only possessions . . . We all lived beside her and never understood that she was that righteous one without whom, according...
Young men don't want to be like their father. One gets tired of Daddy and calls him a stupid old man, said Novelist (The Once and Future King) T. H. White, 57. And that, he added, is just what has happened to T. S. Eliot, 75. Once the great guru of contemporary poets, Eliot has joined the "poets unfashionable" like A. E. Housman and Rupert Brooke who "condescend to rhyme and scan and take care," White told a Library of Congress audience. After a decent interval, he will be rediscovered, but for the nonce, said...
Hedy Lamarr, who used to fire up anyone who saw the whites of her eyes, once said: "Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." The new generation ignores the dictum. They all want to act, or try to. Susan Kohner, Natalie Wood, Tippi Hedren, Carol Lynley, Jane Fonda,Ruta Lee, Christine Kaufmann, Joey Heatherton-all are aflame with Strasberg and Stanislavsky. But as bombshells they are squibs, containing the equivalent of about ¼ oz. of T.N.T...
Naive, Even Stupid. He also disarms criticism-up to a point-by asking the reader's question for him: Why should a man who voted Communist in 1932 now argue so passionately against "state control"? He was "naive enough," he answers, to take seriously Lenin's promise that the state would "wither away." He admits: "It may seem naive, and even stupid, on the part of one who had worked for years on a journal which specialized in public affairs [the New Republic] that he should have paid so little attention to recent changes in the income...
...speaking of segregation in public schools; they are supported by all, including those who support the Lovett School. Segregation on a racial basis is stupid-there are good and bad elements in all races. This is not a question of the merits of segregation; it is a question of the rights of citizens to educate their children in a segregated school if they wish to pay the added expense involved...