Word: brainlessly
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...share in the thankless task of fighting Mussolini while American bankers, cardinals, archbishops, bishops, university presidents, college professors, journalists and lecturers were praising him to the skies, did not stand against Italy but revindicated the rights and the honor of the Italian people against Mussolini and his brainless admirers...
Author Burt is an excellent reporter, and he is at his best in describing the Philadelphia phenomenon-the mingled ugliness and beauty of the city, its noble traditions and wasted opportunities and decay, its kindly and brainless aristocrats, the weird customs and stately orgies of its men's clubs, the gastronomic peaks of its cuisine. "In all the world," says Felix's lawyer at lunch, "there is no equal of Philadelphia strawberry ice cream. In fact, I might say that outside of Philadelphia no one knows what ice cream really...
...Review, who wants to write but isn't sure of her talent. Gary, once the child prodigy poetess, is now a harried girl facing expulsion for having tried to cheat her way into Phi Beta Kappa to fulfill her father's expectations. Jill, who is blonde and beautiful and brainless, wants the bright lights of the stage; Liz serious and restrained, wants the security of a wedding ring and a home. Lee, coldly calculating but warmly amorous, wants above all and at any price to reach financial independence. Stock figures they are, but the author succeeds in developing them...
...while they are quartered in a horse doctor's house during a Brooklyn carnival run. A spindly graduate student of Columbia University falls in love with the troupe's ingenue and she threatens to quit the act for culture and her bookworm, which would deprive the brainless aerialists of their most attractive piece of ignorance...
...They are so afraid of criticism that they discriminate against athletes as though they were all brainless chumps who had no right to be educated. Is there anything wrong with giving a few athletes an education...