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...chosen to walk in a line, than doing so is not an abridgement of anything. If I choose to walk on my tiptoes, I do so by choice. And if it does not hurt anyone around me, despite how tired I might get and how stupid I might look, it is my choice. Perhaps in another plane of existence, vaguely familiar to our own, one might hear a certain dean being appalled at the farcical practice of "punching" as an abridgement of human dignity...

Author: By Adriane Y. Stewart, | Title: Going After Black Frats | 5/18/1988 | See Source »

...neutral fact. I think this new boom in superstition is bad news of the first order. Television coverage of late has been limited to interviews with psuedoscientists and their devotees, who naturally are gleeful about the recent turn of events. The press seems afraid to point out how stupid a belief in astrology is, how discredited a "science" it is, and how silly it is of Reagan to be mixed up with...

Author: By Charles N.W. Keckler, | Title: Reagan's Starry-Eyed Idealism | 5/13/1988 | See Source »

...game is everything," Sinden was quoted as saying after the Meadowlands debacle. "The game goes ahead of my stupid feelings, and ahead of any vendettas, emotions or whatever else is going...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Blowing the Whistle on Pro Hockey Buffoonery | 5/11/1988 | See Source »

...Week's halftime show, Ryan was informed that a poll of NBA players would name Michael Jordan (65 percent) as the league's MVP over Boston's own Larry Bird (19 percent). In response, Ryan used this poll as evidence for his theory that the players are "too stupid to understand" their own game. Is it Black Jordan, despite leading the league in scoring and steals, who cannot figure out the game, or the league as a whole, 78 percent Black, which lacks intelligence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bob Ryan | 5/11/1988 | See Source »

Anyone who loves books knows how hard it is to throw even one of them away, even one that is silly or stupid or vicious and full of lies. How much more criminal, how much more a sin against consciousness, to burn a book. A question then: What if one were to gather from the corners of the earth all the existing copies of Mein Kampf and make a bonfire of them? Would that be an act of virtue? Or of evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Holocaust of Words | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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