Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's Daily Worker fumed that "the whole policy of barring people from visiting here because they have a different view of the world and its problems is stupid." The Worker missed the point: technically, neither was being barred for his views, but for running afoul of U.S. immigration laws. The Herald Tribune thought the dispute a needless blunder: "Two or three telephone calls, made in time, would have cleared [it] up." But by the time it had reached the policy level of the State Department, whose lower levels should have caught it first, it was not that easy...
...fellow whites didn't fare much better. He was charmed by the Lake George country of New York State, but found it "occupied by a race of boors about as uncouth, mean, and stupid as the hogs they seem chiefly to delight in." He reserved his greatest contempt for Englishmen. Looking down from the cupola of St. Paul's in London: " 'Now,' thought I, 'I have under my eye the greatest collection of blockheads and rascals, the greatest horde of pimps, prostitutes and bullies that the earth can show. . . . Was there ever such a cursed...
...Secrecy, applied in a stupid and hysterical and demagogic way, can actually impair and weaken our security. . . . We need ideas if we are to keep our lead and increase it. . . . New ideas require not only inspiration and perspiration but information. . . . It would be nothing short of a major national catastrophe if through lack of an informed public opinion America's atomic enterprise should drift into the doldrums, should fall prey to ignorance or panic or indifference or petty politics...
...felt himself slipping lower and lower for catch pharses. Is it worth the effort? He got an idea. A game. See how stupid a remark can be and still get laughter. He waved a lamb chop at them. I'll tell you, this food is strictly from hunger. No belly laughs but plenty of snickers, Vag noted, amused himself for the first time...
...ballot unenlightened as to the nature and objectives of NSA. This supposition was undoubtedly correct, and some sort of explanation was undoubtedly necessary if the results of the vote were to mean anything. But the method utilized by the Council to clarify NSA was--let us say the word--stupid...