Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Henry V. (for Vincent) Stebbins, special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General, did his best to lead Medina through the intricacies of the Government's case. But over & over again came the patient complaints from the bench: "I don't get that," "I must be kind of stupid," "I don't understand...
Place of honor to Al Capp might have been justified as a depressing example of what our moronic majority feeds on and demands. Instead you appear to deem the pictures artistic, the tortured slapdash stories breathtaking, the primitive jargon and stupid misspellings sidesplitting. You are awed by that $300,000 a year, rather than appalled by the discrepancy between it and the earnings of scientists, researchers, technicians and others of real achievement. It's not your Capp cover and story I object to, it's your enthusiasm over juvenile trash for grownups...
...time the first returns were in and counted, several papers had announced that they would run no more ads in the campaign. Editor Frank A. Clarvoe of Scripps-Howard's San Francisco News said shortly: "It was a damned stupid campaign and whoever thought it up ought to have his head examined...
Chekhov is almost painfully Russian. His characters are up to their necks in suffering and continually say such things as "How life changes, How it deceives one." They are married to stupid husbands, or not married, or about to be married to people they don't love; they have forgotten all they used to know, or else are too stupid to know anything. But never are they happy for more than one sardonic joke at a time...
...prevent him from becoming Madrid's court painter. Goya's paintings of the royal family were much admired, for no one dared admit that he showed them naked as the emperor in the fable of the "Emperor's New Clothes," stripped down to essence, strutting and stupid under their satins...