Word: stupidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those poor, unfortunate inanities of Harvard 1911 have my profound sympathy. They, with their fellow Yale and Princeton men, represent the shattered remnants of the Puritanism that Santayana has so aptly described. The really sad thing is that they are too damn stupid to work the system out to its logical end. . . . They prefer to stay shut up in their own self complacence, completely oblivious of the changing world about them...
...monitors termed the Yardlings a "brilliant group"; fewer stupid questions being asked than usual by confused novitiates...
...George is a good husband. I love him very much and he is in love with me. . . . Please do not ask me to discuss Miss Astor. She is a film actress and kept a diary. Very stupid, that...
...idiots as any author has created. Not until Point Counter Point, published in 1928, did Author Huxley give evidence of his dissatisfaction with his mood of vast, all-embracing negation. In Rampion, obviously modeled on his friend D. H. Lawrence, he created a character who was sincere without being stupid, kind without being weak, and whose insistence on the need for the uninhibited life of the senses was dramatized by the wasted lives of the people around him. In his subsequent satire on scientific progress, Brave New World, Author Huxley buttressed his argument without deepening it when he painted...
...Especially noteworthy are the scenes depicting the origin and growth of mob violence and its development into the characterisically American form of the lynching. Not a pleasant experience, but one of such dramatic power and potential social importance that it cannot be missed. Accompanying this excellent picture is a stupid, slow-moving, puerile bit of Hollywood drivel which calls itself "Speed" and commands attention solely for its almost unopposed candidacy for this year's prize lemon...