Word: brainlessly
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...huge foreground frame of a sewing machine, a pallid gnome bent over his stitching; Mine Baseball, in which the figures of the players are dark on a field yellow with late afternoon sunlight against a dark background of mine breakers and hills; Jury, whose procession of fat and lean brainless bourgeois figures directly recalled Daumier's treatments of the same subject; The Liberals, which presents, out on a limb, the Scientist, the Man who Sees Both Sides, the Indecisive Man, the Scholar, the Hysterical Mystic, the Infantile Man, the Man who Waits for the Right Time, while red-bannered...
...idiotic jester and the other as a dwarfish lecher, don't deserve to be called even crude. Mr. Kaufman should have seen that some people are not subject to ridicule, and that entire has to be appropriate. Depicting the Supreme Court, moreever, as a gang of brainless no-men, takes most of the sting out of the satire thrown at the Executive. The audience in divided between laughing at the Now Deal and sympathizing with it. To these charges of indiscrimination and inconsistency must be added the guilt of that increasingly-popular dramatic fallacy: accusing the munitions-makers of being...
...Pittsburgh last week convening members of the American Psychiatric Association showed their greatest interest in the cases of an almost brainless Pittsburgh matron and a number of imbecile Baltimore maids...
...their bits. One feels that they ought either to be Shakespearean or original, and it is just a little jarring to see the rubber men do a kind of Apache dance with the faerles, and then disappear in a manner so unnatural even for a fantasy that the brainless noisemaker behind us was led to comment, "I know how it's done. It's trick photography...
...selection of Ivy Orator, we must go further. Not only must he be a man naturally fitted for making a humorous speech, but he must be trained to the point of highest efficiency in a cram school for brainless clowning. For professor I nominate the heeler who wrote the CRIMSON editorial board. I have failed. It is impossible to carry the jest further than you have already carried it in yesterday's editorial. The system of elections that has chosen for Ivy Orator such men as Loftus Becker, Stephen Stackpole, and Vincent Palmer needs no improvements. W. H. Lewis...