Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Tompkins: "Wilson never claims to be 'just a country boy' or pretends not to be smart...
There are two basic types of smart bombs-those guided by television and those led by laser beams. TV bombs, like the Navy's 3,000-lb. Walleye (so named for the glassy lens in its snout), can be dropped from an altitude of 30,000 ft., far above the reach of most antiaircraft artillery. As the bomb glides toward the target on a free-falling trajectory, the pilot, who monitors the flight on a television receiver, can adjust its course by remote control, or the bomb, having "memorized" the picture of the target with its built-in electronic...
...every flavor of ice cream. The biggest influence in Tiny's life is his religion, which doesn't really have a name. It says somewhere in Tiny's Bible that man is master of the woman's life. To him, women aren't very smart." Despite these oppressive views, Miss Vicki's friends report that she and Baby Tulip have gone back to live with Tiny...
...better moments, Chicago, Stevie Wonder, Tommy James, Joe South, maybe even the Carpenters, if it's late at night and you're someplace on the Ohio Turnpike eighty miles short of Cleveland. To be certain, most of it is stupid, but it's not supposed to be smart. It's supposed to make you dance or make you sing or make you feel sad: in general, to take you out of yourself and to help alleviate the tedium and-or downright misery of your life...
People don't turn on the radio to hear smart stuff; they turn it on to make them feel good or keep them company when they're lonely or keep them busy when they're bored. If you want to hear smart stuff, you can go listen to some Harvard professor mouth off for an hour in Low Lec. If that's your notion of a good time. There are faculty members who doubtless have some extremely intricate, perhaps even brilliant, perceptions into the essays of John Ruskin and Walter Pater to tell you about. Big deal. Has any professor...