Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world is full of dangerous ideas, and we are both naive and stupid if we believe that the way to prepare intelligent young men to face the world is to try to protect them from such ideas while they are in college. Four years spent in an insulated nursery will produce gullible innocents, not tough-minded realists who know what they believe because they have faced the enemies of their beliefs . . . We have confidence in the maturity and intelligence of Harvard students. We have confidence in the strength . . . of American democracy. There is no danger from an open communist which...
...present disturbed condition in the world, any normal question by a reporter arouses suspicion among lower officials of any government. I was stepping on somebody's toes [in Moscow]. I was making officials mad, [though] I thought I was doing them a favor. All countries have stupid officials and prosecutors who, once they have decided against you, go out to get their...
...centuries Donatella's San Ludovico statue was regarded as one of his poorer works. According to the gossipy Renaissance critic, Vasari, somebody once asked the 15th Century sculptor why he had made the saint look so stupid and clumsy, to which Donatello replied that it was all on purpose-he thought Ludovico must have been a sorry fellow to pass up the kingdom of Naples to become a monk...
Many of Mikofalva's peasants were bewildered. Janos Kelemen, the local president of the Communist-run Peasant Party, to whom Hungary's postwar land reform had given two holds (2.84 acres) in addition to the three he had owned before, said humbly: "I am a stupid peasant. How should I know whether Mindszenty is guilty or not? They tell me in one paper one way, and then comes my friend and tells me these are just lies...
...returning to Boston and Cambridge, I doubt very much if the conservative element among Harvard's graduates is any-less stupid than the conservative element of the Republican Party. I fall to see, therefore, what possible benefit is to be derived by undergraduates from attending such sessions as you outline--sessions where they would be subjected to attacks on liberal tendencies in Harvard teaching and to explanations of current social, economic, educational, and political problems in the stupidly and dangerously prejudiced terms typical of the conservative element wherever it exists...