Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overcome by the expedient of switching on the engine. It is Buckley's crew-as fine a collection of overachievers as ever spliced the main brace-who make the trip a sentimental journey. On the way, the author analyzes celestial navigation: "The mortal enemy ... is the plain, dumb, silly mistake"; and discusses subjects as disparate as American literature, fatherhood and literary correspondence: "Everybody who has dominion over any kind of press space spends considerable time answering letters from convicted felons." On all of them he is diverting and refreshingly free of bias and political cant. The sea seems...
Folks are dumb where I come from...
Smart Americans as well as dumb ones have always held a special belief in what comes natur'lly. That belief appears to grow stronger as society pulls further away from nature. As ever more synthetic artifacts of Western civilization emerge from laboratories and test tubes, a great many people have developed an outright crush on nature. Indeed, the supposedly natural is so warmly regarded nowadays that the artificial is in danger of getting an unjustly bad name...
...Prime Minister and the Defense Minister were struck dumb. Their silence thundered as it pained. The fate of Israel, David Ben-Gurion said, is dependent on its strength and its righteousness. Righteousness, not just strength, has to guide our deeds...
...Condon of Kansas City. Other players have eagerly appeared on local TV, among them Brian Baschnagel in Chicago, Aaron Kyle in Denver, Mark Murphy in Washington, Jimmy Cefalo in Miami and Beasley Reece in New York. If nothing else comes of this, the stereotype of the big dumb football player may have been thrown for a lasting loss...