Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impossible. And yet we must. And therefore do them good . . . holding your nose and shutting your eyes. . . . Endure evil from them . . . know how to despise them even when they are good, for most often it is in that they are base. . . . Anyone who's not quite stupid can't live without despising himself. ... To love one's neighbor and not despise him ... is impossible. -. . . 'Love for humanity' must be understood as love for that humanity which you have yourself created in your soul . . . and which, therefore, never will be in reality...
...down and wrote a characteristic letter to a friend: "Tomorrow my narrative will be finished. ... I can hardly believe my own ears when I say [it]. All my wicked villains will be duly rewarded ... all my models of usefulness and intelligence will be fitly punished . . . all my stupid people, including my readers, will be put to sleep for a thousand years...
...first step in the problem was how to keep Greece from going Communist. In immediate terms, that meant shoring up the stupid and reactionary Greek Government (TIME, Feb. 24) until a better, more democratic substitute could be found. Britain had poured over $250 million into Greece since Liberation. The money had gone to rebuild harbors, pay the Government's expenses and the maintenance of British forces. Since Britain could not pay, the U.S. must either do so or the Iron Curtain would be moved down to the Mediterranean...
Modern methods of teaching can and should give children what they need as well as what they want. ... It is unfortunate that faddists have warped teachers', as well as the public's, conception of progressive education. (The term is a stupid redundancy. Education implies progress.) Not until teachers are adequately trained and rewarded for their technical skill and knowledge can modern teaching be progressive in practice...
...Boston's censor, who had demanded that some blunt words be dropped from the play, got a blunt reply from O'Neill: "Idiotic. ... I will not change, nor allow to be changed, one word. . . . Boston audiences, I am sure ... do not want plays . . . made silly by ... stupid censorship...