Word: witlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good word for the shark. On any coastline, the cry "Shark!" is guaranteed to produce 1) instant panic in the local chamber of commerce, and 2) a sudden boom in swimming-pool sales. Sailors blaze away at passing sharks with rifles and shotguns, ichthyologists denounce them as witless garbage disposals, and many a fisherman disgustedly reels in his bait at the first glimpse of a triangular dorsal fin slicing the surface...
...December a seven-man emergency committee was elected by the faculty to serve as spokesman before the California Board of Regents. In an evident spirit of compromise, the committee's chairman, Arthur M. Ross said he saw nothing against student rallies, but referred to sit-ina and boycotts as "witless activity...
...words he had been saying since 1927 were. 'Evil, be thou my good.' But he would not open his eyes or unstop his ears, and he stood fast and chose damnation." This makes HawHaw sound like Faust, when he was actually a miserable, shabby, bewildered, compulsive, witless and pathetic little fellow...
...well. to find the "editorial" much diminished. It is still the same old horse-manure though; gracious knows why the editors cling so tenaciously to their cretinish little jester and that tired bird. The introduction to the "publications guide" chides freshmen with some grace and gentility. But Ibis's witless spleen can only remind us that Lampy wil probably remain the most literate of Harvard's prep-school fraternities, but only the ingrown toenail of her literary corpus...
Bedtime Story is a witless, one-joke soporific concocted by a pair of usually wide-awake Hollywood pitchmen. This time out, Producer-Writer Stanley Shapiro (Lover Come Back, That Touch of Mink) and Co-Author Paul Henning have pitched a Mickey to the comic muse. Story unfolds against rear-projection views of the Riviera, where a bogus Highness (David Niven) and an ex-U.S. Army corporal (Marlon Brando) pool their resources to squeeze a living out of wealthy women such as Dody Goodman, an Omaha madcap just born to be trimmed. The thieves fall out, of course, when they...