Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DECADENCE-Maxim Gorky-McBride ($2.50). Freely translated, the pen-name, "Gorki," means "bitter."* But in this study of Russian babbitts, Author Gorky is no Sinclair Lewis. He is impassive and even pitying toward those stupid, acquisitive bipeds-serfs before 1861, small-town industrialists thereafter-whose tendency to "make another America" out of Russia was retarded by 20th Century revolutions. This lengthy history of the Artamonov family, father and sons, rising with their big linen factory to as much power as they can control, then losing it all, is not satire or invective. It is honest, impersonal realism, thoughtful though morose...
...TIME has been a tool for propagandists, it has been indeed stupid...
...have recently been buying and admiring TIME and on reading the March 7 issue, I was amazed to see that you had made the stupid error of treating the name of Berg as a Jewish name...
...better advantage than in any of their platinum and gilt-edged plays of the early season. The triangle which the play required was an acute-angled isoceles, with Guy Phillips, the lover of the lady in the case, flubbing badly. Mr. Jewett, in the role of the ridiculously stupid and irate husband, was not to be surpassed. His whole stage presence lends itself to the role. Miss Taylor struggled with the incredible role of the lady who chose the greater of two evils, her husband, and won the day for the Repertory...
Three hundred pure white swans, fat, sluggard, stupid, sacred to the Hindu God Brahma, have been carried immemorially as a heavy and increasing charge on the budget of Jammu & Kashmir, famed Indian dual realm...