Word: brainlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...context--to many Mather students--highly inappropriate under the circumstances. The tactics used to push pink triangles on reluctant students were as open and empathetic as the Mather House meeting a few days before: if you felt uncomfortable displaying a large pink triangle, you were aiding and abetting the brainless homophobic thugs of the world. Silence, after all, equals death. Is it surprising that Mather has lived up to the dark prophesies that it was a house divided against itself...
...Josh is astute enough to understand that his bar mitzvah was more a ceremonial aspiration than a sudden transformation. Between childhood and adulthood lies the ridiculous and treacherous territory of adolescence. It is a region full of dangers, brainless impulses, hormonal furies. And it must be crossed...
...gods of the Greeks walked in and out of the lives of ordinary people. The gods would materialize out of thin air. Sometimes they quarreled -- often petty, brainless quarrels -- but the earth shook...
...always been attended by an aura of amiable averageness. The producer Alfred de Liagre said that Reagan on film "always had the manner of an earnest gas-station attendant." Liberal writers have dismissed him as ideologue, cretin and airhead, or worse. They have thought of Chauncey Gardiner, the transcendentally brainless seer in Jerzy Kosinski's novel Being There. Gardiner, in the eloquence of his idiocy, becomes a national oracle. "How humiliating," the columnist Nicholas von Hoffman wrote of Reagan in 1982, "to think of this unlettered, self-assured bumpkin being our President...
Hunter Thompson delivered his own surprises. Sent out to cover Humphrey, a wayward whale in the Sacramento River, Thompson instead reported in preposterous detail on an elderly Chinese woman who claimed to be Richard Nixon's former mistress. Thompson devoted a subsequent column to a blistering attack on his "brainless" editor's failure to pay room-service tabs. All good fun, sort of, but other reporters grew angry that Thompson was mugging the Examiner while collecting $1,500 per column...