Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regrettable irresponsibility the Harvard Crimson has gone too far, so far as I am concerned. First, it published, without my permission and authorization, a stupid and ludicrous version of supposedly my lecture about the social functions of the school, -- the version which had an astronomically remote resemblance to the ideas expressed in my published works (Social Mobility, ch.ix), as well as in my lecture. Second, contrary to the rule of an elementary press-ethics, it did not publish my letter of protest and repudiation sent to the editor of the Crimson. Third, in this way Crimson started the avalanche...
...speeches, printed side by side, in Spanish translation, would have precisely the opposite effect down here from that they produce on 90% of the U. S. readers of TIME. They would be first-rate totalitarian propaganda. This does not mean that Latin Americans, in general or individually, are stupid...
...because of the news it prints or its point of view, for it prints what news there is, but because of the news it has to print. . . . Where is the civilization of which we boast? If a man who is tired of hearing of death and planned murder is stupid, Lord! let me be d-d stupid. If a man who feels that he does not know how to help mankind out of the cesspool it is now in, and admits it, is a moron, I admit of no defense. Once I deplored the stupidity of the ivory-tower artists...
...ceiling Author Hutchinson flies the higher of the two. He does a sort of subdued version of Noel Coward's noisy Cavalcade, conducting an English clerical family through the first three decades of the 20th Century. Always a ready hand with the Gentle Soul beset by the Stupid Community (notably in If Winter Comes), he plays it now in the Rev. Gordon Brecque, his patient service of his God, and his vicissitudes. The pre-war era is largely consumed by watered-Dickensi-an childhood episodes; during the post war years two children marry stodgily, and the younger daughter makes...
...enemy and his friends, before an armed offensive; 2) to prepare the ground for a real peace offer. The rumors of the past few weeks might be for either. There have always been important groups in both Britain and Germany, in both China and Japan, that felt war was stupid and needless. Weeks ago the Rome-Berlin Axis was supposed to be trying to get the Vatican to propose peace on the grounds that Germany could not conquer the British Isles and Britain could not conquer Europe. Hitler's travels of the last fortnight suggested that he might...