Word: deadening
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...this amounts to is an advocacy of teaching names, dates and places by rote and providing a context later. Hirsch acknowledges that the method has been derided since Dickens satirized Pedant Thomas Gradgrind ("Facts, sir; nothing but Facts!") in Hard Times. But, he counters, "it isn't facts that deaden the minds of young children, who are storing facts in their minds every day with astonishing voracity. It is incoherence -- our failure to ensure that a pattern of shared, vividly taught, and socially enabling knowledge will emerge from our instruction...
...have a profound impact on the economy: a sweeping reform of the tax system and a plan to reduce the $200 billion-plus federal budget deficit. Some lawmakers fear that tax reform, which may hike Government revenues in the short run, when combined with a federal spending cut could deaden an already weak economy. Said Representative Jack Brooks, a Texas Democrat: "We could be staring a raging recession right in the face...
Pornography stunts the male imagination and helps preclude any creative alternatives to the status quo. With its puerile fantasies and its reduction of women to flat surfaces, pornography directly complements other forces of sexual repression in American society. Mutually reinforcing, they serve to dominate women, to deaden men and to denature sex itself...
Zelig. Technically bedazzling, Woody Allen's parody of a square-cut documentary is also a hard-edged examination of the way modern celebrity rituals, magnified by the media, bend people's minds and perhaps deaden their hearts...
...cover up department stores and shopping malls, offices and civic buildings, convention centers and hotels. Designed out of fear-fear of the untidy hustle and bustle of city streets and "undesirables"-the walls spread fear. By eliminating the hospitable jumble of shop fronts, restaurant entrances and newsstands, the walls deaden the very city life their builders claim to "revitalize...