Word: ignorami
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...order to go on view at the Mauritshuis in the Hague in March. Nothing in the budget blackmail epitomizes the Republicans' folly as well as Vermeer. He's the canary in our ideological coal mine. This, one realizes, is part of what Congress's cultural ignorami mean by renewing American civilization. It is done by humiliating cultural institutions and depriving Americans of what the institutions contain. Meanwhile, at the National Gallery, lines have been forming at 6 a.m. in below-freezing weather and stretching round the block. And what are the unticketed missing? Quite simply, one of the most perfect...
Such missteps, while often howlingly funny to ignorami like us, are deadly serious concerns to psychologists and linguists. Victoria Fromkin of the linguistics department at U.C.L.A. regards slips of the tongue as clues to how the brain stores and articulates language. She believes that thought is placed by the brain into a grammatical framework before it is expressed-this in spite of the fact that she works with college students. A grammatical framework was part of Walter Annenberg's trouble when, as the newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Britain, he was asked by the Queen how he was settling...
...honest illiterates, there were 5,000,000 '' proud " or " dishonest " ones, who refused to admit their deficiency.* Researches carefully backtracked the Federal statistics into States and localities, there also discovering about 10,000,000 near-illiterates-a grand total of 20,000,000 ignorami. This is: more than half the population of France, more than all the Mexicans in the world, more than all the inhabitants of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and Scotland combined...
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