Word: stupidness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PRAGMATIC failures only hide the basic flaws in press coverage and national attitudes during foreign policy debates. Intervening in somebody else's internal politics is more than just stupid, impractical and ultimately rarely successful; it is wrong. In fact, pragmatic failures ultimately have their roots in the essentially immoral nature of any such intervention. In Iran, the frustrating, tragedy-engendering contradiction that helped spark the awesome wave of opposition to the Shah lies in the conflict between President Carter's apparent commitment to basic human rights (that had raised opposition hopes that the U.S. would pressure the Shah...
...often capable people. Stephen Guptill, 34, had just been appointed secretary of the office of elder affairs in Massachusetts when reporters learned that in applying for his first job Guptill had falsely claimed two degrees still on his resume. Said Guptill, when forced to resign: "I made a stupid mistake 14 years ago, and nine years of hard work and dedication to the elderly is being ignored...
Then comes the general commentary. Adjectives like "pretentious," "sleazy" and merely "stupid," nouns like "gibberish," "bunk" and "rubbish" fly from the page like hot spittle. The world suddenly becomes overrun with "boobs" and "nitwits" and "barbarians" and their synonyms: "vice presidents," "curriculum developers" and, above all, "educationists" who have made careers out of not teaching Johnny to read while not learning to write themselves...
...MOST MEANINGFUL QUESTION Brustein's detractors have thrown at me, and the one that forces me to expose a basic faith in the man's nature, a faith which some people consider unfounded or even a little stupid, goes like this: Why Harvard? Why is this big guy fooling around with undergraduates when his true concerns are so much loftier? We all know why he wants to come to the Loeb: a good location in a big Eastern city, with a built-in audience of "intellectuals" hungering for innovative theater: superior facilities; more sources of potentially big money, which apart...
...prodigious leaper, I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms ("Look at it this way, Silas, Louis Quinze is to the Pompadour as you are to..."). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this exam period. Hell, no, I unicycle out to Revere Beach every morning...