Word: stupidness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discussion of grievances. In an impassioned speech, Ali Asghar Mazhari an independent deputy, evoked cheers and tears with a stinging-and what short time ago would have been unthinkable-rebuke to the Shah. "While the majority of the people may have been silent this did not mean they were stupid and did not know what was going on," said Mazhari. "They knew. And they will continue to protest until you begin to respect them for their true worth and until the rule of law prevails. They do not want the most expensive life on the face of the earth. They...
...nobody is getting any younger. And now we try, so stupid and futile--it makes you want to stop trying...
...probably asking yourself, "Why in hell would anyone be so stupid as to turn in the same paper three years in a row?" The point is not so much that it was the same paper, it is that the paper was successful, and that is what really counts here after all. For Harvard's one, mainline, true-to-life tradition is success. That is what a great number of your predecessors at this august institution worship as their common bond. The traditions of elitism, and the closeness Harvard has with the power structures of business and government cannot be truly...
...STRANGE, but the Pink Panther is a very controversial animal. Sample a random number of reasonably intelligent people on what they think of these stupid Blake Edwards movies and you'll get replies ranging from, "I sleep through them" to "What wonderful pictures! Real fun and unpertentious, you know?" Although more boneheaded "auteurist" cinema scholars--Black Edwards fans all--could probably give you a shot-by-shot analysis of this unsubtle director's techniques, most critics will find it hard to be objective about Revenge of the Pink Panther. So much depends on one's mood, the setting, the company...
...more than itself). Time spent on games, on the other hand, is by its nature communal. And although success in other fields is for the fame of the community, games success is more obvious, more dramatic and more frequent. Lastly, the public schools took a fairly high proportion of stupid boys . . . It was simply a sizeable slice of their market. But it was another reason for the rise of games and another force toward the despising of intellectual and academic achievement...