Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diametrically opposed" to Goldwater's views on poverty. "What he doesn't understand," declared Rocky, "is that a lot of people who don't have an education and who don't have the preparation for jobs-it is not because they're either stupid or indolent and don't want to know, it's because they haven't had the opportunity. There are very few Americans who don't want to go forward. But they need the tools of education and opportunity...
...evidence demonstrates that McCarthy attempted to blackmail the Army and that the Army then attempted to buy McCarthy off. But in the later rounds, McCarthy begins to swing wildly, and Joseph N. Welch, the Army's counsel, delicately cuts him into paper dolls. His methods are exposed as stupid, his morals as prehistoric. "At long last," Welch cries in revulsion, "at long last, sir, have you no decency left at all?"-and the spectators burst into sustained applause. In the end, the other Senators on the subcommittee turn fiercely against McCarthy. "No one is afraid...
...misgivings, death came to the federation on New Year's Eve. Next day at noon, 2,000 Africans gathered for a mock funeral. Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda, boss of Nyasaland's Malawi Congress Party, told his cheering supporters, "I mean to rule. I shall allow no stupid fool to destroy what I've built up. If to do this is to be a dictator, make the most of it!" Then his followers set fire to a coffin representing the federation and the ashes were thrown into the Shire River, which, in the words of the Malawi News...
What she does mesmerically carry off is the portrayal of an egocentric exactress of 70 who does not choose to act her age since she does not feel it. She (which is all the play calls her) is clever in speech, stupid about life. At long last, she wants to be her own woman, though there is no proof that she has ever really been anyone else's. The selfish mistakes of a lifetime gradually filter into her drawing room to offer comic rebuke. One son marries the spitfiery image of his mother, and the couple travels...
Part-Time Harem. His commitment to acting is thorough but not blind. "Acting is a means of doing what I want to do," he says, "which is living a normal life, and not the kind of stupid life most actors lead. I can't imagine not acting, but I'm in a very happy position. I can wait here in the country with the donkeys and the corgis, and pick and choose. I plan to do as I am doing, develop my little property, and have a little harem. Not a full-time harem, of course. That would...