Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squeezed through dish towels. Many drinkers say they can down a gallon of Danish, German, Mexican or Japanese brew, but after three American cans they feel acidy and bloated. Like the U.S. automobile and television industries, the brewers will learn the hard way that we're not as stupid as they think...
...dyslexic in high school has special problems. After years of being told that he is slow or stupid, he can have a very poor self-image. Forman provides an array of sports training to improve physical self-confidence. But the biggest challenge for teachers is to devise a curriculum commensurate with the student's real intelligence. At Forman, students listen to a recording of, say, Romeo and Juliet while reading the play. Computers are becoming an important teaching tool because they promote sequential learning and logical development. For the student able to handle calculus but not the sequences...
Refusing to learn to use a computer [July 19] is as stupid as trying to achieve status by not owning a TV set. As a professor of Anglo-Saxon and medieval studies, I look forward to updating and advancing my courses through computer research. Scholarly books and articles will also be produced much sooner by using electronic methods...
...want it. But what a long-denied pleasure it is to make up one's own parodies as the film unreels rather than try to force a laugh or two at some arrested adolescents' idea of what is funny about people who are at once stupid and entirely serious about themselves...
...acted-out comic book, adult cops and robbers. It certainly did not carry the brutal symbolic weight of fantasized murder. When Hockmeyer, the Maine riverman, shot me as I was about to grab the red flag and glory, I said "Ooog, good shot" and immediately felt slow and stupid, not quick and clever. But that was the extent of it; I didn't feel dead...