Word: stupidness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like the little boy of The Painted Bird, Kosinski wandered the villages of Eastern Europe alone while World War II ravaged the continent. Like the idiot of Being There, Kosinski abandoned Europe for the United States, arriving there stupid and mute. And like the heroes of his later novels, he married a fabulously wealthy widow who died six years later leaving him nothing...
...Signs are stupid," City Councilor David A. Wylie added. "They convey less information than practically any other form of advertising." Wylie eventually voted for an end to the ban, however, saying that case law supported Wolf's claim that the ban was unconstitutional...
Egypt was almost equally adamant. When Strauss presented the proposal to Sadat, the Egyptian President called the plan "stupid." Sadat wanted nothing to slow the Camp David timetable calling for Egypt in January to regain two-thirds of the Sinai, including valuable oilfields. He feared that a U.S. proposal on the Palestinians would so outrage the Israelis that they might find some pretext to delay in fulfilling their Camp David conditions or to walk out of the current autonomy talks aimed at granting some self-rule to West Bank and Gaza Palestinians...
...exactly. Otherwise I'd be a very stupid man. Just remember that any complication for the Palestinian cause means a complication for the Middle East crisis, and also complications that the American computer itself might be unable to predict, including Soviet complications. Is all that risk in your interest just to keep on spoiling your naughty baby Israel...
...professor mumbling about arcane and vapid subjects, in love with the sound of his own voice, while I sat resentfully, one of hundreds. In sections, wan-looking graduate students droned on and on about trivial points in lectures while pathetically overeager students fell over each other to answer stupid questions. My knowledgeable proctor had screwed up again--he hadn't warned me that huge survey courses are probably the least challenging and most poorly taught classes at Harvard. I felt academically betrayed...