Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stupid movie with Can-nd hordes of guest stars EPE) unsuccessfully apes s of the late and great d. Plotless and pointless...
...Some, even after indictment, openly defended what they had done. F. F. Loock, president and general sales manager of Milwaukee's Allen-Bradley Co., who was slapped with a $7,500 fine and whose company was fined $40,000, maintained that "no one attending the gatherings was so stupid he didn't know they were in violation of the law." Then he added, in a surprising non sequitur: "But it is the only way a business can be run. It is free enterprise...
...anything short of Fate led to his capture--not fate in the sense that capture is inevitable, but Fate personified, a malicious god responsible for that one hard-luck chance in a million. It is a senseless belief, but remember that it is held by the ignorant--not the stupid, the ignorant. Men in prison are uneducated men; few are stupid, if by stupid we mean unable to learn, moronic...
...Charles Playhouse production is not good enough to overcome the play's weaknesses. John McQuade conveyed less of of Keller's toughness than of his nervous guilt (perhaps the nervousness was McQuade's), and Alan Bergmann was properly intense and idealistic as Chris, though the character seemed somewhat more stupid than he should have. Sylvia Davis as Kate Keller was generally unconvincing. There were, in spite of it all, a few very powerful scenes...
...strike has thus far attracted attention in local newspapers, and MacDonald is hopeful that it will get some national coverage. He reports that he has received many encouraging phone calls as well as a letter which described him as a "stupid, egghead bastard...