Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...county sessions. In precincts that Ford carried, the losers argued that their own long service to the G.O.P. entitled them to some representation at the county conventions. Moans Fred Baker: "We let them go. We didn't even have any pros to guide us. Jesus Christ, our poor dumb people...
...Revolution, Itard achieved a minor miracle in teaching Victor at all. The foremost doctors of the day were quick to declare Victor a congenital idiot and asked to banks him to the inhuman, rat-infested cubicles which served as the asylums of Paris. "He's not deaf and dumb because he was left in the forest, he was left in the forest because he was deaf and dumb," they said, and one rumor had Victor the illegitimate son of a provincial notaire who cast him into the woods to avoid the social embarrassment of raising a retarded bastard...
Jones stresses that this isn't a "dumb jock course" and is quite sensitive about the course's nickname. For five weeks, students are asked to keep logs detailing their daily activities. A paper based on the log enables the student to analyze his overall lifestyle in the Harvard society and determine factors that affect day-to-day decisions...
...deaf and dumb...
...Saturday. The Tubes, who are like a recrudescence of all that is and ever was bad with the entire world, especially that of rock, will torture you and your mother if you bring your mother to rock concerts which is real dumb and so is all this, along with some bogus group called Be-Bob Deluxe at the Orpheum on Friday at 7 p.m. Sleaze city, kitty. Finally, you've got the J. Geils Band, who also rot, like everything else about the seventies, in a benefit for Summerthing, on Wednesday, April 28 at 8 pm, at the Music Hall...