Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...capable of understanding less about sculpture are excited by the beauty that they instantly apprehend in Rodin; they grasp without effort subtleties of intention that the sophisticated perceive only tortuously, after elaborate reasoning. There is more in this fact than an illustration of the theory that only a stupid man has any capacity for learning. It contains two secrets of Rodin's brooding intellect that 'are also the secrets of his popularity...
...Mack knew business, Benoni nothing. By chance Benoni learned there were lead and silver along a stretch of shore. He cared nothing for that. He wanted the rocks for fish-drying and bought them for one hundred dollars. Came a testy Englishman, with a mineralogist. While stupid Benoni fumbled for answers, the Englishman bid up to twenty thousand. Benoni's staggering imagination doubled the sum and collapsed. The Englishman had a title drawn and stalked...
...sleek roadster in the garage; or when they are bumptious zanies anxious to impress the loose-lived upperclassmen with whom they find themselves thrown; or full-blooded Nordics soon to go into training? The parental attitude was: our son is unusual (or erratic or talented or temperamental or stupid) and he needs special, individual attention. The Rosenbaum Tutoring School gave him special attention, mentally, and left him to his own devices out of the classroom as any businesslike concern naturally would...
Were the ancestors of Chicago's present schoolchildren a stupid lot? Or have teaching methods and teachers vastly improved in 50 years? These are the comparative results, announced a fortnight ago, of an arithmetic test taken by pupils in Chicago schools 50 years ago and given again last year...
...that evening Paul Berlenbach, a onetime taxi-driver with an extraordinarily brutal and stupid face and enormous muscles, won the world's light-heavyweight championship from shifty, tired Mike McTigue. His methods was to plough flat-footed after the Irishman, taking two punches to one for the occasional privilege of bringing home his cemetery left. The referee's decision was unpopular. "A champion is ut," McTigue's followers queried, "that ham an'egger?" They were consoled only because they had seen, in a preliminary bout, a light-heavyweight boxer whose speed and rhythm surpassed anything...