Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flight, Oswald ran within twelve feet of one witness, who heard him mutter either "poor damn cop" or "poor dumb cop." Another witness reported the killing to headquarters on Tippit's car radio, and almost immediately sirens whined through the neighborhood. Oswald paused in the doorway of a shoe store managed by one Johnny Calvin Brewer. Then, while Brewer watched, Oswald, disheveled and panting, ducked into the lobby of the Texas Theater. Cashier Julia Postal saw him, but when she heard the police sirens she stepped out of the box office. Brewer asked her if the man who had just...
Knout came in for the lion's share of criticism this time around. Poll after poll called him "dumb," "unintelligent," "thick-skulled," "stupid," or moronic." As one student summarized the feelings of the class: "That man is an idiot...
...listening too much to the raving hyenas, scavengers, jackals, parrots and vultures who should be kept behind moats in the Bronx Zoo. It is too bad that the rest of America does not realize how few and unrepresentative these discordant voices are. The shallows murmur, but the deeps are dumb...
...their unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the Fiihrer, Hitler had been in power for eleven blood-soaked years. Why, ask historians, had no other Germans ever conspired before to overthrow the dictator? True, as Terence Prittie notes, history's most ruthless tyranny had reduced the German people to "docility, dumb ignorance and wrong-mindedness." What few non-Germans realize, and few Germans fully appreciate, is that individual men and women never ceased to risk and lose their lives in opposition to Hitler's totalitarianism-ineffectually perhaps, but heroically nonetheless...
Shakepeare's longest play has for this production been trimmed to a running time of two and three-quarter hours. Missing entirely are the Dumb Show (for which I have never understood the need anyhow, for the same thing is immediately run through again viva voce), together with Fortinbras, Cornelius and Voltimand. While Fortinbras' absence does not seriously affect the main line of the plot, it does--since he is a foil to Hamlet--mar the architectonic design of the whole. The cuts have led to a bit of tinkering with the lines...