Word: blockheaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been heard of for years. A former naval person like the President would understandably favor a seascape by James Bard. But a Mount Monomonac by the sentimentalist Abbott Thayer, who died in 1921, or a portrait of Queen Victoria by the stodgy Franz Winterhalter, whom Ruskin dubbed a "dim blockhead," were plainly special tastes...
Prayer v. Play. Methodism's founder, Anglican Minister John Wesley, was also the founder of Methodism's schools. In 1748, shocked at the fact that only one Englishman in 50 could read and convinced that "every voluntary blockhead is a knave," he set up a school for English miners' children. In his grimly Methodical way, Wesley roused his ill-fed pupils at 4 a.m., forbade recesses, ignored weekends, decreed a harsh round of Greek, Hebrew, philosophy and math, interrupted only by prayers. Said he: "Those who play when they are young will play when they...
Epic Tax Dodge. Parkinson's Second Law-"Expenditure rises to meet income" -is scarcely a novel blockhead buster...