Word: dumbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...largest and most enduring goal: universal health care. Few know that President Richard M. Nixon offered a Kennedy a Clintonesque health care proposal in his last years in office. At the time Kennedy rejected that plan because it didn't go far enough to insure all Americans. Dumb move, perhaps. But Kennedy didn't compromise Later, he even gave up the chance to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee. He wanted to bide his time on the CLHR to make sure the atmosphere was right when health care came around again...
...Crimson computer-dumb? And if it is at present, should it stay that way, or is there a way forward...
...short opinion pieces written by concerned intellectuals are the beginning of a considered response to The Bell Curve. These articles have pointed out the basic difficulty of disentangling the effects of intelligence and environment in determining academic and socio-economic success. Can Johnnie not read because he's dumb or because he lives in one of the most God-awful ghettos in America, and his average class has 40 people (half with guns) and one teacher...
After 19 years, Lehrer is slightly leery of going solo: "There's always been one of us to protect the other one from dumb ideas." While there may be wisdom in this Solomonic separation, in TV news one less face to trust is an enormous loss...
After a decade of smart people playing dumb (the David Letterman syndrome), it's a tonic to watch a show whose creators are unafraid to parade their erudition. MST3K, which is incorporated under the apt moniker Best Brains, Inc., is for snobs and slackers -- a crash course in popular culture, high and low. Pay attention, for without warning or footnoting you may hear allusions to Thomas Pynchon, Susan Faludi, Joseph Campbell, Jenny Holzer, Andrew Sarris or Anna Kisselgoff. A starlet bathing in a lake suggests "Fanne Foxe in a Maxfield Parrish painting." And don't worry if some...