Word: boneheaded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...multisex, what does that mean--some of the the guys wear PANTIES on the field or something?' And then everybody starts laughing, and I guess I was laughing too--yeah, I was laughing--except they were sort of laughing AT me, you know, not WITH me? Boy, what a bonehead move that was--you see, the whole time, it was the multi-FLEX offense...
...also to acknowledge it, both in his songs (one hell-raising rocker is called I'll Sleep When I'm Dead) and in casual conversation. "The fundamental idea that everything's going to be all right appeals to me less than the simple notion of bonehead justice," Zevon told TIME'S correspondent James Willwerth...
...same problem exists at scores of other colleges. Cornell, Stanford and Wisconsin have established special writing-improvement centers that students attend voluntarily. At Yale, for the first time since the late 1950s, "bonehead English" (basic composition) is being taught freshmen lacking the most rudimentary skills...
Almost half the freshmen at the University of California at Berkeley flunked an English composition exam this fall. They have had to enroll in a remedial course known around the campus as "Bonehead English." At the University of Miami, the English department has set up an elaborate tutoring center where video tapes are used to help entering students learn grammar, punctuation and organization. At the University of Houston, 60% of the freshmen fail the first three essays they write. Says Jesse Hartley, Houston's director of freshman English: "Students can't carry through an idea in writing; they...
...Berkeley, says Instructor Kimberly Davis, the average student in the Bonehead English course "attended a good high school, probably received B's if not A's in English, and is either distressed, appalled or outraged to discover that he can't write up to university standards." Six Berkeley students recently put their anger in writing. After some editing help from their instructor they mailed a letter to their high school English department protesting their poor preparation. They never got an answer...