Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victims are stupid, wealthy women. His difficult task is to woo them, marry them, pry their money loose, murder them, dispose of the corpses, and invest his take. He is exceedingly hardworking, skillful and, in his way, ethical at his job; he takes the least possible emotional advantage of his victims, and he is careful to kill them painlessly...
...midnight, some of the people who had fled Texas City began to drift back. Some ignored police warnings that the waterfront was "pluperfect hell" and went down to help. Hundreds of grimy, gas-masked men, stupid with fatigue, still labored there-probing for severed legs, torsos, heads, in the red glow of the unquenchable fire. Sometimes squads of rescuers staggered for cover when a change of wind whipped the .blistering heat around. Among them was Father William Roach, of St. Mary's Catholic Church. Father Roach died with his rescue squad when, at 1:11 a.m., the High Flyer...
...fewer public-school teachers than it had in 1939. Of these teachers many are pitifully ill-trained "emergency" amateurs. (The film shows the too common spectacle of a teacher unable to work a problem she has given students.) Still others are psychologically unfit to teach (the film shows a stupid teacher calling a pupil stupid...
However, using "stupid" works of art as a propaganda means in times of unrest, as Soviet Russia frequently does today, rather than depicting a true and realistic glimpse of society, is deplorable. "No Hamlet or Lear could be produced," said Professor Matthiessen, "if pessimism were only a thing of the past...
Greek Premier Constantin Tsaldaris has been called (with some justification) a stupid reactionary. Even stupid reactionaries sometimes make sense. Last week, fat Dino Tsaldaris made sense...