Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attack. Senators have seen what I have called to their attention, an attack on their representative, their agent. They have seen an attack made on that agent's courage and intelligence. They have heard the junior Senator from Wisconsin say that I am both stupid and a coward...
...think that censure will mean the end of McCarthy as a political power. In the Senate, the debate has swung around McCarthy the man, and McCarthy the ill-behaved Senator. Thus, many liberals, revolted by the abusive McCarthy tactics, tend to dismiss all his adherents as either malicious or stupid people. Such an attitude, however, underestimates the movement and suggests no solution to McCarthyism as a political problem. The censure split in the Senate parallels a more serious split in the nation, a division particularly deep in matters of foreign policy. The McCarthyitcs' overriding fear of internal communism, whatever...
...where he witnessed the city's famous burning and Napoleon's great defeat), but wherever he lived, his personal equation remained: love + work = happiness. He ran off to Marseille to live with an actress and be a banker, wound up a grocer and quickly broke with the "stupid" girl he had imagined was his ideal. He fell in love with the wife of one of Napoleon's leading officials, imagined that that old black magic was enchanting his inamorata, that "she looked at me as though I were a powder barrel." But the fuse fizzled. One violent...
...distrust." Left-wing Combat answered by attacking the U.S.: "I would say the stock of the U.S. has never fallen lower, whereas that of France is rising visibly . . . I would say that if Germany has really become so soon a confidential partner, one should not have been so stupid as to crush...
...most violent opinion was expressed by John William Marchetti, who resigned last May as electronics director of the Cambridge Air Force Research Center after a row with a new commanding officer. Said Marchetti: "We got decisions that were stupid, just plain stupid, and some that were intolerable." He did not blame the military men for all the friction. "It is one clique pitted against another ... 'It is said of a well-known Air Force research and development center that at the officers' club the relative ranks are officers, enlisted men, dogs and civilians...