Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happy consequences of this quality control is that it is self-perpetuating. Have you ever noticed how few dumb people are on campus? This is not just because they aren't accepted, but because they don't even bother to try to come here. They know that they wouldn't make the grade, they know they wouldn't fit in. And when dumb people do come here, we generously instruct them. The smartest Harvard students and professors rally to the cause. With clever phrases and melodious hymns we gracefully expose their abysmal dumbness and assert our intellectual primacy. In this...
...That's not legal. It's dumb fiscal policy. Andit's just not fair to the vast majority ofAmericans who pay their taxes in full and ontime," Dukakis said...
...seems ridiculous, but Quincy's dumb rules may actually set off some type of dining hall war. Residents of other River houses may feel a bit put upon when waiting in even longer lines of Cabot, Currier and North residents. Up in the Quad, students quite rightly feel a bit insulted. House committee chairmen--and this should give pause--have threatened to do something. David R. Golob '89, the Cabot house committee chairman, bravely hinted that the Quad might cut down on interhouse dining during reading period, when many students from the River escape to the solitude of Hilles Library...
...Some experts remain cautious. Says William Brennan of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: "It would be dumb to make up my mind before the results from the field are all in." He should not have long to wait. Last month a DC-8 and a converted U-2 spyplane began flights under and through the hole in the most intensive attempt to date to pin down a detailed model of the ozone depletion process. Preliminary results should be announced later this month...
...court jester at Disneyland; Steve practiced at home with croquet balls and badly bruised his fingers. Or take the hat-with-the-arrow routine (please). "It was a thing we used to sell at Disneyland," Martin says. "It goes back to the theory, 'God, these gags are so dumb!' By the end of the act I was wearing the hat with the arrow, the balloon animals, the nose glasses and the bunny ears. I wanted to look as ridiculous as possible. It was like anticomedy." And a lunatic ad for Merlin's Magic Shop...