Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because of the emphasis on academics, Harvard athletes are often deprived of the hero status accorded their colleagues at other schools. In fact, many Crimson athletes feel that the student body looks down on them as stereotypical "dumb jocks." A Crimson telephone poll conducted in June revealed that 35 percent of Harvard undergraduates considered athletes less intelligent than other students...
...would rather read novels in which the characters toy with a little Brie while waiting for their friends to turn up along the boulevard. If we can't get Anthony to concentrate, and hard, on the War of 1812 and obtuse triangles-" The pupil interrupts: "Like the dumb postmaster and his wife and that boarder they say is fooling around with her, speaking of obtuse triangles...
Software is to computers what gasoline is to automobiles or records are to stereo sets. Without software, a computer is only an inarticulate mass of electronic parts. Says David Sturtevant of the Association of Data Processing Service Organizations: "The computer alone is as dumb as a stump. It won't even keep beer cold." Software, the programs that come in cartridges or on floppy vinyl discs, instructs the machine to carry out the commands given to it. Customers are willing to spend heavily to get the right software. Industry experts estimate that for every $1,000 consumers invest...
...doctor looks down and pronounces judgment: "This child is dying." The mother's reply: "Don't you think he speaks English, you dumb son of a bitch? Pack your bag and get out!" The boy recovers and grows into an excruciating adolescence. He tentatively displays a picture of his new girlfriend. The father's response: "What are you doing in drag...
...image "It Prince's going to sing about all of these sex topics, people think he's being risque and that's cute," she says. But it Wendy O. Williams, lead singer for the Plasmatics, flaunts her sexuality on stage. Rodriguez says, she is seen as one of many "dumb broads fronting a band," She adds. "As women, 'we have to watch out that we're taken seriously...