Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Goldwater says. "The issue in the South, you know, is not integration. It's states' rights," it indicates that he is very stupid, very naive, or a very good politician...
...they built of them have collapsed. In Fyodor's mind the irony inherent in the lives of displaced persons becomes explicit; it becomes a dancing landscape, in which his private Russian past of butterflies, poetry and childhood games blurs into the hateful Berlin present of landladies, "Germani-cally stupid" language students, and menacing politics, as the Weimar Republic, "oppressive as a headache," clumsily snuffles toward its collapse. Fyodor's trilingual life enables Nabokov to play complicated games with the meanings of words. Fyodor is a poet, and without warning his thoughts run in poetic form; only the reader...
...Burnham and John W. Root in the tradition of the illustrious 19th century Chicago school of architecture, is now having its balanced grandeur shrouded by a curtain wall of glittery white porcelain enamel. "Worse than a desecration," growls Architect Nathaniel Owings of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. "It's a stupid misunderstanding of what the future...
...scientists are frankly skeptical of the moon project on technical grounds. Says famed British Astronomer Fred Hoyle: "It's America's money. If it were mine, I wouldn't spend it on anything as stupid as trying to get to the moon. Neither the U.S. nor the U.S.S.R. will get there. Neither side has thought it out. If you are talking of 50 years' time, there may be a possibility, but at the moment it is just too hard. It will be anti-prestige; so many disasters will ensue if they go" on with this project...
...what he got. He stopped taking notes and started holding hands with her at the races. "This is a very personal thing between Roddy and me," Kim tells Roddy's competitors. Meanwhile. Director Henry Hathaway. 65, was telling Novak that she was "a silly bitch" and "a stupid cow." Novak went off to London and hid from reporters in her own reporter's pad. Hathaway quit. Actor-Scriptwriter Bryan Forbes quit, too. Laurence Harvey, who plays the young Maugham in the transparently autobiographical story, tried unsuccessfully to buy his way out, then went off to St. Jean...