Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This said, there still is something remarkably touching about those who do not let bad enough alone, perhaps because their errors are errors of the heart. Who but a genuine innocent-in outlook, if not in conduct-would be so bold or dumb as to put his life on the line like that? Not a Frenchman, certainly, who would regard a scandal as droll; nor an Englishman, to be sure, who would regard it as an honor. No, only an American would blunder forth as in the Agee case, openly advocating fair play, the merit system, and the rights...
...cannot act. A director must go wild: "Now you're mad, right, look mad. Good. You're frustrated. Now, crumple up that paper. Pick up the phone. Put it down." He seems hopelessly, pitifully, out of place. He's so big. He's so pretty. He's so dumb. Christopher Reeves works better as a still life...
...study at M.I.T. directed by Edwin Diamond, a senior lecturer in political science, concluded that the TV ads in past presidential campaigns have served mainly to reinforce the opinion of voters who already favor one candidate. "People ain't dumb," says Diamond. "One-half of the population is now 33 or over. They grew up on television. They are not fooled by it. They know when they are being Daileyed and Rafshooned...
...Washington rest 25 thick black loose-leaf binders. They are crammed with ammunition for the Democrats' effort to make Ronald Reagan the chief issue of the presidential election campaign-thousands of past Reagan comments that Carter's strategists consider to be insensitive, silly, simplistic or just plain dumb. Following the quotes are notations of their sources: newspaper clippings, official Reagan statements, transcripts of his speeches and news conferences...
...some advice for Carter: forget trying to paint Reagan as a nuke-waving, overaged, stupid and dangerous man to an American public that had seen him aw-shucksing his way coolly out of difficult spots. Greenfield still has big doubts about Reagan, but added: "Wrong is different from Dumb. And so is Unfamiliar or Inexperienced...