Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...section to "Science Fiction." The cause of my disillusionment is your rebroadcast of the theory of Mr. Hugh Auchincloss ("Upset the World") Brown in TIME, Sept. 13. The location of the piece under "Science" and the scare headline put you in the position of trying to frighten a somewhat stupid child by telling him ghost stories . . . I enclose a 1? stamp and I suggest that you use it to start a fund to be used to buy Brown a 10? gyroscope...
...usually worthless trying to interpret an audience's reactions and using that interpretation as a criterion by which to judge the play. But last night, when roars of laughter greeted each stupid blunder made by the generals and the visiting congressmen, it leaves some doubt as to whether Mr. Haines has succeeded in making his point. Stupidity is laughable in chimney-sweeps and char-women, but it becomes something else when found among men with the whip in their hands...
Ayer thinks that "Oxonian's" fuss about fascism is "extremely stupid." All he wants to do, he says, is to distinguish between sentiment and fact; the fascists were forever confusing the two. That sounded all right, in a way-but most Britons didn't like the sound...
...stupid," answered Mose, hurling one of life's profoundest paradoxes at Li'l Abner. "It's because they're so good...
...French Socialist Party had lost its vigor, and its attraction for French voters. All it had left was its honor, which it tossed away last week in a stupid double-cross that caused the fall of Premier André Marie's month-old government...