Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rolling Stone's sprawling, directionless Altamonte coverage. Much of the rest-sentences like "Shoplifting at Macy's is like cunnilingus-illegal but you probably won't get busted for it"-is even more of a calculating attempt to be Where It's At.) And how do you explain dumb little typos like "With a few exceptions, the counter-culture business heads get thrashed along with Cambridge Bank and Trust...
When the unnamed heroine of Rebecca thought she went back to Manderley again, she was dreaming, of course, about the grief-drenched mansion where she had been so scared and had acted so dumb. But there has nevertheless been a real and steady procession back to Daphne du Maurier's literary landmark by women who know exactly how to conduct themselves. Some of the world's most prosperous authors check in every year either at Manderley or at one of the two other historic homes on the tour: Thornfield Hall, where Jane Eyre was governess, and Wuthering Heights...
...frilly dresses we were told to keep clean, we have learned-they have told us-that it's a man's world and we had better learn to keep in our places (in the home, in bed). And they kept on telling us we were inferior, we were dumb, we didn't matter-in school, where we learned about famous men and their civilizations and their science and their art. And on the radios, rock stars singing about fucking their totally dehumanized (except for maybe how they look) girlfriends; and the women singing mostly about loving their men, or being...
...hierophantic theater, as old as time, as young as the infancy of man. To see The Grey Lady Cantata as performed by the Bread and Puppet Theater is rather like waiting in the mystic whispering groves of Delphi to hear the oracle speak. Despite the primordial trappings, this virtual dumb show is as contemporary as tomorrow's bombing raid. It is a cantata of death, an immensely sad and strangely affecting tale of the wartime slaughter of innocents...
...rebellion exclusively as one of blacks fighting for jobs and left the other issues almost untouched. "The economic struggle just around jobs and money is not the only way to get people involved," he commented later. "PL limits its activity to that. In effect, it says that workers are dumb fools who can only relate to economic issues and can only understand them if you underline, italicize, boldface, and capitalize them, as they do in Challenge [the PL monthly newspaper]. It really comes over as a bludgeon...