Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scarcely credit the notion that she is widely regarded as a formidable intellectual. "It seems like a hoax, a vast mistake," she says. Born in New York City in 1928, she was raised in the Pelham Bay section of The Bronx, a middle-class neighborhood. "At P.S. 711 was dumb, cross-eyed, and couldn't do arithmetic; I think the image of what we are when we are little kids is our image for life. Everything went wrong for me then, including the anti-Semitism of the teachers and the kids...
Whatever else, Reagan's self-control is phenomenal. One solid word to any of those "confidants" and the leak would begin, the mystique would vanish. The press and public would go back to cataloguing all the dumb things he says about Nicaragua. As of now, the largest political story of the summer is still will he or won't he run. The White House gets the question a dozen or more times a day, sometimes at the strangest moments. Recently Mrs. Reagan held a press conference on her Foster Grandparent program. Other subjects were ruled out. Reporters could...
...that uses personalities to attract viewers to the news. But TV executives around the country said that in Craft's case, the show business considerations were insensitively handled and tinged with sexism. Said General Manager Monte Newman of Chicago's WMAQ: "The people in charge were incredibly dumb." When Craft negotiated with KMBC for the $35,000 job in 1980, she told the station's management that she had resented being "made over" as a bee-stung-lipped, bleached blond for a previous post as a CBS network sports reporter in 1977-78. KMBC'S management...
Until now, the pioneering work in computers was done almost exclusively by a select group of European and American scientists who shared a loosely defined mandate: to make dumb machines act as if they had human intelligence. Over the past 25 years, the AI laboratories of such institutions as M.I.T., Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon and Scotland's University of Edinburgh have introduced word processing, video games, time sharing, robot control and advanced missile-guidance systems. Lately, AI research has concentrated on building systems that can mimic the brain work of skilled experts in such fields as oil exploration, battlefield command...
...contend with the assumption on the part of people I met and men I dated outside the business, that stupidity was a prerequisite for a modeling career. At one point, though I had to ask myself if I really had the right to feel indignant about being treated dumb model because there was a growing ring of truth to it I had left high school at 16, a voracious reader. Now, at 23, I hadn't read through a book in years. The realization that a transitory stage had turned into a way of life brought on a panic...