Word: witlessness
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...tried to dismiss the whole matter as a moss-backed anachronism. Racing to the Princess' defense, the cocky tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,665,000) asked its more influential brother (circ. 221,972): "Would the Times have preferred this vivacious young woman to marry one of the witless wonders with whom she has been hobnobbing these past few years? Or to live her life in devoted spinsterhood? Luckily the Times cannot banish Princess Margaret. It speaks for a dusty world and a forgotten...
...Hollywood, or so he feels, for the mess of modernistic pottage he lives in, and the inalienable right to Swedish massage. Now his wife (Ida Lupino) is leaving him, his contract is coming up for renewal, and he is beginning to feel like a spiritual gelding-"one of those witless, sold-out guys, sitting around the gin table, swapping phone numbers and the latest dirt...
...principle, dependent upon its caution and its wisdom. "By caution, I mean a prudent guard against fatuous expectations that a world, sick with ignorance, mutual fears and hates, can be miraculously cured by a single meeting. I mean a stern determination that we shall not be reckless and witless, relaxing our posture merely because a persistent foe may assume a smiling face and a soft voice. By wisdom, I mean a calm awareness that strength at home, strength in allies, strength in moral position, arm us in impregnable fashion to meet every wile and stratagem that may be used against...
...pity that in The Animal Kingdom Norman Shapiro 3G should have wasted his talent on some of Ogden Nash's worst poetry. The verses are far too brief for any significant musical development, and their "humor" unrelentingly witless. Perhaps in the future Shapiro will apply his obvious skill to more worthy material...
Both the Ridgway and Williams dissents were inevitable expressions of the views of their respective services. In a sense, however, both were assaulting a strawman. When the Eisenhower Administration departed from the witless "balanced-forces" policy (which meant that Army, Navy and Air Force should get about equal appropriations), it did not substitute a policy of putting all the defense eggs in one basket...