Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...article's central thesis revolves around somthing akin to the "I'm not stupid, you're stupid" argument, writing that the true totalitarians on campus are not the PC adherents but rather anti-PC fighters. This argument, of course, really doesn't disprove the original point; it only indicates that the respondent subscribes to the "classify and conquer" motif, where one side-steps the contention by dismissing the one who made...
...their argument, if taken seriously, would foreclose reporting most information from the allied side, since it also is censored and one-sided. We see videos of smart bombs hitting buildings but no videos of stupid bombs missing buildings. Yes, sure, we can trust the good guys more than we can trust the bad guys. But that is because we believe the good guys are generally committed to truth as a value in its own right. That belief is undermined by those who argue that we should deny ourselves the truth from Baghdad for our own good...
...stupid, men are vain/Love's disgusting, love's insane/A humiliating business." This is hardly the typical love-song sentiment. But Stephen Sondheim is not a typical lyricist, and an evening of his persistent cynicism can be quite wearing. Fortunately, the creators of Love is in the Air have coated the bitterness of Sondheim's songs with enough comic relief to make for a delightful experience...
...Suez attack encourage or enable the Soviets to crush Hungary? In his memoirs, Khrushchev talks of defending Hungary from "counterrevolution," but he more candidly told an ally that he had to act, or the West "will say we are either stupid or soft." But would he actually have done it if the West had not been divided and distracted by the Suez events? Or to put it another way, what did Mikhail Gorbachev last week consider to be the lessons of 1956, and how do they apply to the Baltic states' demands for independence...
Holed up with the remnants of his army, Siad Barre offered again last week to negotiate with the three main insurgent groups that have overturned his 21- year dictatorship. A rebel spokesman in Rome said they "would not be that stupid...