Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...displayed price is already marked down, then the trick is to appear ready to buy a system or component, but unsure about what and from whom. After a half-hour of hesitation the salesman will either drop the price or throw you out. Some other techniques that work: seem dumb but price conscious. Again, after a while, he'll probably cut the price 10 per cent to give you "what you've got your heart set on." The most level-headed technique is to tell the salesman, "I like the Marantz 2040 but your next-door competitor is offering...
...Ford, and I can't believe that he still wears the same dated political garment worn during our college years. It's embarrassing, too, that he asked the nation in another outmoded, unscientific piece of advice to clean our plates, and then spent thousands on a dumb campaign. Especially bad, too, was his exhorting the American people to give blanket support to the Republicans. He should have devoted that time and energy to our pressing domestic problems and let the Republican Party donate that sum to a good cause instead of a lost...
...sure. One of the greatest in history, but to do it all through sounding like a serious person, whereas Rostow managed to sound like a bubblehead and a pompous ass whenever he opened his mouth. I think Kissinger played one indispensible role, snowing the press. Now, are they dumb? Are they stupid? It's an Ellsberg rule--Ellsberg's Law of Bureaucracy, I'm not a bureaucratic theorist but what I learned in the Pentagon was: Anyone can be as dumb as he has to be to keep his job. The highest plum that any reporter can offer his boss...
Noting that Sirica's comment on Mitchell was not said in front of the jury, most of the experts see little harm done. That may have been "a dumb thing to do," observes Columbia Law School Dean Michael Severn, but Sirica's remark does not constitute the "provable deep prejudice" required for reversal. As for Sirica's praise of defense attorneys in grilling Dean, Yale Law Dean Abraham S. Goldstein views it as "a jocular remark" by a tired judge who let himself "be seduced into this spirit of courtroom camaraderie." Said in the presence...
...women tend to mask their abilities in a variety of ways. Sometimes it come out in a kind of militant explosion. But mostly the girls don't talk in class. Mostly, the guys talk. There is still this business about 'I don't dare show these guys either how dumb they are or how smart I am' because of the 'fragile male...