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Word: stupidness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bank account, but claimed he was simply being reimbursed for money he spent-for the Senator. Talmadge said that if he had committed the offenses he was accused of, he would be dimwitted, and the Senator added: "Even my enemies don't claim that I'm that stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Trial of a Lion | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...last two weeks we've played really good baseball," Brown said. "The only losses were to Holy Cross on an error, and to Brown on stupid pitching...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: What's Wrong, Brownie? | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

...similarly vitriolic comment on the subverted chicness of punk, "I'm So Cute" emulates the "beat-it-into-their-heads" method: stupid words, short lines, and screaming repetition. Many of the other songs on this album, although not deliberately mimicking punk, are painfully consistent with this style. And they're boring. Zappa lets his compositions ramble in a way that shames his genius as an arranger. Usually a clever and inventive songwriter, Zappa here contrives disappointingly sparse and uncreative lyrics. Only his provoking cynicism remains...

Author: By Peter Sanborn, | Title: Brain Police and Mental Floss | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...best news I've heard in a long time," Anthony M. Spaniola '81 said yesterday. "I remember walking in here at the beginning of my freshman year and thinking how stupid it is for a library to have a noisy floor...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin and David A. Wilson, S | Title: Librarian Considers Proposal To Install Carpeting in Lamont | 4/27/1979 | See Source »

...their basic platform, and marked the Faculty's division into liberal and conservative camps. Although the bust precipitated the split, the caucuses focused on distinct differences in principle and tactics, Hoffmann says. "The conservatives seemed to us to be saying we have to defend authority even if authority was stupid. One conservative insisted on supporting Pusey even though he said to me, 'Pusey is like Louis XVI, except that Louis listened to his advisers.' But the liberals argued nothing good would come of unqualified support. When the president and administration make mistakes there is no reason to support them," Hoffmann...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: On the Left | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

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