Word: ignoramuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bitterness over this year's preconvention fight has intensified the dissatisfaction that has been building within the state party for years. Meyer Berger, national treasurer of the Americans for Democratic Action and a Pennsylvanian, calls Tate an ignoramus...
...time-in such close harmony? As one violinist explains: "There is one glorious counter-stress that makes everything worthwhile-the joy of making music." And, it might also be added, with the smug certainty that the fellow up there waving a stick at them is a musical ignoramus as well as an exhibitionist...
...TEACHING OF SCIENCE: "The really big thing that has happened in the past 300 years-and if you don't know this, you are an ignoramus-is that in that time men have learned how to go about understanding the physical world. This is the overpowering fact of modern times-the most important development in 100,000 years of human existence. And the higher-education program that doesn't recognize this is as inadequate as the elementary schools that fail to teach the three Rs."-Caltech President Lee DuBridge at Cornell College, Iowa...
...become so vituperative, in fact, that South Dakota's Republican Karl Mundt, himself a notable rough-and-tumble campaigner and a strong Barry Goldwater partisan, rose in the Senate last week to decry its "low-level, schoolyard" tactics. Complained Mundt: "What kind of madness is upon us? Ignoramus, crook, warmonger, demagogue, trigger-happy, vote-thief - these are some of the terms we hear booted about by candidates for President of the greatest country in the world." But there is still time, he said, "to restore some degree of dignity and decency." The Essentials. So far neither candidate has shown...
...Ignoramus, there you are, Sitting in your hopped-up car, And your brains ain't up to par, And your ears stick...