Word: stupidest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fatal words into my ears and my tape recorder. After the publication of the interview, Kissinger did not deny the cowboy reference. Nor has he ever denied it in the past seven years. What he has said is that doing the interview was the stupidest thing of his life...
...smooth-talking, image-conscious politicians, he is a gruff, rumpled throwback to Mencken's soap box demagogues. The face is bulldoggish, the figure dumpy, the voice a throaty croak. There are no silken buzz words in Jarvis' earthy speeches. In his repertory of epithets, Republicans are "the stupidest people in the world except for businessmen, who have a genius for stupidity"; the League of Women Voters is "a bunch of nosy broads who front for the big spenders"; others who oppose his beloved proposition, "dummies, goons, cannibals or big-mouths." The tax issue, he says, is "Armageddon...
...next to the radio. waiting for the weather service to announce that a tremendous blizzard was heading for New England, creating hazardous traveling conditions. Invariably, such a storm would arise, and an endless discussion would ensue. By the end, mother would tell father that the whole idea was the stupidest thing she'd ever heard of; the next day, she would stand waving good-bye, tears brimming in her eyes, sure that this was the last she would ever...
...covers the first 80 years of the Roman Empire, from Augustus to Claudius. Gibbon called Claudius the stupidest of all Roman emperors-a considerable statement, given the fact that in 500 years there were 81 in the class. But it was Graves' fictional conceit that Claudius only feigned stupidity to save his life in that murderous, fun-filled age. While, over the years, his relatives were running from dinner or orgy with various poisons in their gullets, Claudius munched serenely on, watching and waiting and watching some more. I, Claudius purports to be the product of all that observation...
...Radcliffe Houses to which they are assigned place them at 29 Garden Street only adds insult to injury "I came to Harvard to go to Harvard and not some grungy hotel," declares Hubert Lenczowski '76 heatedly. Lenczowski now lives in Eliot House. Being put into the Continental was "the stupidest idea that ever happened," he says...