Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rule forcing schools to stop requesting photographs with application forms is a "stupid requirement," according to Eugene S. Wilson, Director of Admissions for Amherst College...
...spawning such a big girl as "Annie." I remember one occasion when they shot up their own fuselage and the plane came crippling in-a mech had lost a foot and Mac's hand was badly injured. Mac's rueful remark was that it was a pretty stupid way to have to earn a Purple Heart...
Fritz Crisler, athletic director of Michigan and author of the new rule, said it is "one of the most striking changes that has ever occurred in football. It will add drama to what has been the dullest, most stupid play in the game...
...Bridge on the River Kwai has acquired an undeserved reputation for "significance." The only way it could "mean" anything very important would be as a comment on various attitudes toward war or toward fine points of law and principle. But since the spokesman for one attitude is unspeakably stupid if not downright insane, the "issue" which the film discusses is no issue at all. We are expected to feel a grudging admiration for this Colonel Nicholson as he suffers, and makes his men suffer, for his little point of principle. However, anybody who hates the waste of pain and misery...
...diverted. I wandered through the alley-ways and knocked on brown-wood doors, and was admitted. Once inside, I watched the men speak lines and gesticulate, and somehow failed to understand. Beside a soundless stage my doubt played the part of a fool, incapable, strutting in a stupid pride, mute, dead, responding to a pair of strings attached to twitching thumbs...