Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...class and the agricultural heartland of the midwest. Furthermore, it seems likely that a majority of Americans are themselves conservative in bias, so that true conservatism can be described as good politics in the long run. The Republican difficulty lies in having allied itself with a group of essentially stupid, uneducated conservatives who appear to believe that conservative values (which they themselves do not understand) can be preserved intact by a two-fold policy of mouthing archaic shibboleths long since devoid of real meaning ("A balanced budget"!, "free private enterprise"!) together with legislative obstruction of virtually all social legislation. This...
During this presidential campaign, lots of people have said lots of stupid things. But it took a Harvard professor to utter what is certainly the greatest campaign monstrosity that has reached my cars. His name is Warren Abner Seavey, he is the Bussey Professor of Law, and he was speaking for Dewey at the Law School Forum Friday evening. "Perhaps," he suggested, "the man who drove the gangsters from New York may be able to drive the gangsters from the Kremlin...
Hint from a Hypnotist. Austrian Anton Mesmer, who gave his name (mesmerism) to a technique now called hypnotism, has been called a faker. More likely, some modern psychiatrists think, he was a stupid man who blundered into an idea too big for him: the phenomena of suggestion and suggestibility. A Frenchman, Jean Martin Charcot, demonstrated that hypnotism could both arouse and quiet symptoms of hysteria. Charcot also bid for fame as the teacher of a Viennese neurologist named Sigmund Freud (rhymes with overjoyed...
...slogan "Birth Control is against God's Law" is probably the most immoral and the most stupid creed over proposed in the history of man. Uncontrolled birth rates must inevitably and rapidly lead to starvation, misery, ignorance, and high death rates. Population growth must be controlled either by high death rates or by low birth rates. There is no alternative. Karl Sax, Professor of Botany
Women, deprived of the company of men, pine; men, deprived of the company of women, become stupid.-Chekhov...