Word: simplemindedness
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"I'm a worrier by nature," Chase says, "so I did begin to think that. But then I began to read articles about 'the death of irony' and how [the new climate] is going to require more family films, people are going to want less complexity, people are going to...
The blessing of the election of 2000 may be that no one emerges from it with a "mandate," for mandates are an invitation to simpleminded zealotry. The Gingrich Republicans thought they had a mandate after the 1994 elections. They played it hard and stupid; look at the grief they quickly...
Even through Hoban's bizarre, vulgar-Freudian analysis of Basquiat's artistic ambition as a misplaced search for his father's approval, the meaning of Wright's quote is clear. The danger that Wright refers to is not the danger that Hoban depicts through stories of Basquiat's drug-induced...
In the old days of the Soviet Union, Communist ideologists taught the simpleminded notion that the bourgeois capitalist world was run by small groups of monopolists who manipulated governments and the news media from the comfort of their wood-paneled offices.
It has always seemed to me that if you want to be taken seriously, you can't be too optimistic. People who see how bad things are get respect. When they make a triangle with their fingertips and thumbs and say, "What I find deeply troubling..." or "I fear I...