Word: dumbness
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...teach them "approaches to knowledge in areas that the faculty considers indispensable to undergraduate education." These goals are sabotaged by several factors, which include limited offerings, a myopic focus on "micro-events," and a general insistence on the part of the Core office to professors that they "dumb down" classes...
...really hard for me!" he says, laughing. "So what's available? I got myself a nicer home, and that's about it. And I went out and bought my parents a house too. I felt like one of those sports guys, you know"--he puts on a dumb-jock accent--"'Duh, I bought a house for my parents...
...campus who, like me, favors the John Harvard statue to the stacks, patterned boxers to plaid and Ec 10 to Sex. There we would sit, marveling at our common fantasy to be the fire-eater in the circus, and at our shared instinct that we would both play dumb if approached by a mugger--facts that would never have come to light if it had not been for Datamatch. Another success story for the cupids on the council...
...Civil Guard assigned to this village, where work is inching ahead on construction of a government-financed highway. Although the guardsmen are supposedly there as keepers of the peace, they know the mountain people regard them at best with mistrust. "To tell the truth, you have to be pretty dumb to join the Civil Guard," Corporal Lituma tells his colleague. "The pay is lousy, nobody can stand you, and you're the first one they blow up with dynamite...
...thought [today's disturbance] was kinda dumb, but the professor's comebacks were pretty funny," Cohen said...