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...sync with the conventional images of education in America. Write about those images: the teacher is a pale, bloodless deacon, drained by unrequited longings, preposterous, out of things. She is the withered maiden; he is Ichabod Crane, humiliated to death by the village nitwit. The only way he gains respect is to become Glenn Ford in Blackboard Jungle and beat up the classroom hoods. There are exceptions like Mr. Holland's Opus. But the rule is Arnold in Kindergarten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STUDYING STUDENTS | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...have a serious confession to make. I am an "arrogant nitwit." Furthermore, I behave like a "blockhead." Or at least, that's what Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle would have you believe...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: Scrape Off That Barnicle | 10/16/1996 | See Source »

...mean" and would like everyone to behave in such an "integral" fashion that even one's foes have to begrudge a little respect. Who could be so craven as to disagree? Imagine, for example, our political candidates hailing one another as fine and honorable men, never mind those nitwit ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: GOOD: A SPOTTER'S GUIDE | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

...nitwit shuttle scheduling makes a bad situation worse last year, when the shuttle service sent out a survey, they received massive complaints about the errata schedule. Still, almost none of the tunes have changed...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Shuttle Bus Stupidity | 11/17/1995 | See Source »

...high-tech courses, which boast indigo-tinted waterfalls and animated jungle creatures, are a far cry from the concrete dinosaurs and creaky windmills that made these kitschy creations an icon of America's vacation landscape. Not bad for a pastime that was pooh-poohed during the 1920s as "nitwit golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Not Putting with Pluto, But It's Very Close | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

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