Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paid his respects to the memory of Gandhi (by sitting patiently through a 65-minute service at which Novelist Pearl Buck contrasted Gandhi's principle of non-violence with that of the "stupid men" who created the atom bomb) and to the memory of Lincoln (by driving to the Lincoln Memorial, watching two aides place a wreath at the foot of the Emancipator's statue...
Earnest A. Hooton, self-winding Harvard anthropologist, unwound a wallop at love on the dole. "Stupid, shiftless, and improvident human beings breed the most rapidly," he informed a California lecture audience, "because they feel little responsibility to their offspring and recognize no obligation to society. . . . If we must feed and foster the incompetent, we should at the same time prevent their reproducing their kind...
...onetime watch-engraver's apprentice, wry, wiry Le Corbusier (born Charles Edouard Jeanneret) had designed his first house by the time he was 18. When no one would listen to his new theories ("Men are so stupid, I'm glad I'm going to die"), he shocked them into attentiveness. "Should we burn down the Louvre?" he once asked Paris. He told New Yorkers that their skyscrapers were too small. Rome's architecture, he said, is "the damnation of the half educated...
Looking back on my own days on the CRIMSON, I think the answer is clearly that we did not take full advantage of our opportunities. This was not because we were particularly stupid, or because we didn't take our job seriously. The reason, I think, was rather that most of us had very few ideas about what a university ought to be and about the role it should play in twentieth century America. Let me cite an example of what I mean from my own experience...
...said, is not the result of too little self-indulgence, but of too much; not of over-restraint and inhibition, but of irresponsibility, guilt and immaturity. "Above all," Mowrer concluded, ". . . the ethical accomplishment of untold past generations, as imbedded in the conscience of modern men & women, is not a stupid, malevolent archaic incubus, but a challenge and guide for the individual in his quest for self-fulfillment and harmonious integration." (For a psychologist, it was almost a psalm...