Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ball games. Somewhere in a high-rise Manhattan hotel, Mammon and the Grinch negotiated free-agent compensation, the main issue in the major league players' strike-the old push-and-shove of player freedom vs. owner control. But the noises coming through the door sounded rather slow and stupid, like Brer B'ar: "Ah'm gonna knock yo' haid clean off." If the Soviet Union had invaded and installed a puppet government in Washington, one could not imagine a more profoundly un-American summer than the one that suddenly seemed in prospect...
...perhaps into a few safe stocks. But today millions of people are taking money out of those traditional savings havens and putting it into accounts that often earn a return of as much as 17%. Says Walter Wriston, chairman of New York's Citibank: "Americans are not stupid. They have been seeking a better return on their money and getting...
...threat of outside interference in the University, however, extended beyond what one observer called an "awfully stupid" state legislature. In Washington, the Senate Internal Security Committee, headed by Sen. James O. Eastland (D-Miss.), charged that 10 per cent of a group of intellectuals listed as "the most typical sponsors of Communist Front Organizations" had some connection with Harvard. In the House Un-American Activities Committee, the view of Harvard was much the same as in the Senate. Harold H. Velde, the former chairman of the committee, told a group of students that Harvard, as a large center for learning...
...contend with those who fail to meet it. Persistent rule breakers are confined to the correctional custody unit (CCU), where they are subjected to "retraining"-a program of drills and indoctrination designed to reinstill the lessons of boot camp or, as one veteran puts it, "to make you feel stupid and look stupider." Further instruction may be given in the brig-a solitary cell where the diet is sometimes bread and water...
...fame, the Rumour drags down Manfred Mann's "I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine" into the dust heap. The tackiness of the album cover is a joke, but one that will hurt them in this country; Americans don't like being told flat out that they're stupid consumers. The music of the Rumour and Rockpile rockseven more in concert, but is drowned out by the record industry's find-me-something-new blues...