Word: moronization
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Older people will tell you just how exciting television was in the early days--how amazing it was to have that picture come into your home. Highbrows complained that it was a moron's medium, but smarter people seized the new miracle toy and created ineffable moments. In the Caesar show, you can almost see the shock and the exhilaration on the actors' faces at what they are doing: they are in a stage, under bright lights, doing material written within the last week--but they are appearing in front of millions. And they know that millions are responding...
...pain factor" (the relative pain caused by crowding in each House) as the amount of floor space per capita illustrates that he is "totally divorced from the reality of the housing situation." The Memo editors were not swayed by Collier's explanations, calling them "the reasoning of a functional moron...
John T. Dunlop resigns as President Ford's Secretary of Labor. "The man's a moron," Dunlop tells a press conference. "What can you do for a president who thinks a Labor Secretary works for an obstetrician...
...four days. In a halfhearted show of determination, rebel planes-mostly prop trainers from Morón air force base outside Buenos Aires-attracted the curiosity of Christmas shoppers by making a few low passes over the city. Loyal air force fighter-bombers strafed some parked planes at Moron, destroying a few but taking no lives. After other commanders convinced him that the army was not ready to join the uprising, the leader of the air force coup, Brigadier General Jesus Orlando Capellini, quietly "submitted to higher air force authority "-after having won a promise of amnesty for his rebels...
...frequently describes himself as a bleeder and a firm believer "that easy writ ing makes hard reading." The hack is the kind of man who dashes off a few mysteries before breakfast and boasts of popularizing Shakespeare so that he will be "comprehensible to the veriest moron ... to even a rock fan." He is also a painter with a worldwide reputation...