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Word: stupidness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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Writer Malcolm considers togetherness "vulgar and stupid," but she warns that feminism "may be an even more invidious cause of unhappiness and discontent." It may well be, if some of its extreme tenets are adopted. But chances are that society will heed only the movement's legitimate demands. All the rest-motivated by what Helen Lawrenson calls the "splenetic frenzy of hatred for men" voiced by "these sick, silly creatures"-is likely to remain unacceptable to all but the sickest and the silliest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Women's Lib: A Second Look | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...spared?' I think part of the answer is that Nadya's reports helped determine Stalin's attitude toward me. I call it my lottery ticket. I drew a lucky lottery ticket. Right up until the last day of his life he liked me. It would be stupid to talk about this man loving anyone, but he held me in great respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Khrushchev: Notes from a Forbidden Land | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

...have stayed in jail and I have stayed stupid, and I have stayed a child while I have watched your world grow up, and then I look at the things that you do and I don't understand. Most of the people at the ranch that you call the family were just people that you did not want, people that were alongside the road; I took them up on my garbage dump and I told them this: that in love there is no wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Sermon on Society | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

...many young people agree with a self-styled radical student: "That was a joke. The school is run like a cattle bin. We've got to change it, and if we have to use violence we will. But only a fool would think we're stupid enough to make the stuff in a basement and then put the name of our targets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Child Guerrillas? | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

Fuller explained that the principal cause of alienation and strife between nations was their effort to balance out the inequity of the world's resources and "to obtain those things necessary for human survival." Stating that the politicians 'method of effacing this aim have always been "incredibly stupid," Fuller placed hope in the restructuring of educational methods. He said people must begin to see the earth as a whole system with very definite limits to its capacity, and that too much attention has been given to specialization...

Author: By Lynn M. Darling, | Title: R. Buckminster Fuller Is a Verb | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

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