Word: brainlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton mess last week suggested something about a certain brainless overstimulation of American media life. In his novel Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow wrote about the arrival of fame: "I experienced the high voltage of publicity. It was like picking up a dangerous wire fatal to ordinary folk. It was like the rattlesnakes handled by hillbillies in a state of religious exaltation." Bill Clinton, wholesome, ruddy Arkansas boy, found himself handling poisonous snakes. Ugly stories have a slithering life of their...
...arguing for network teletrials because secret sentencing is bad is as brainless as urging rock climbers to carry 50-gallon water canteens. If you go hiking in the sun, take some water, but don't take so much that you can't walk...
...think in categories is one of the techniques of evil. Marxist-Leninist zealots thought of "the bourgeoisie," a category, a class, not the human beings, and it is easy to exterminate a category, a class, a race, an alien tribe. Mao's zealots in the Cultural Revolution, a vividly brainless evil, destroyed China's intellectual classes for a generation...
...paradigm as a sort of reality thresher -- a way of comparing past and present, an implement for sorting out history at a moment of tumbling global change. Paradigm is a buzz word that does not sing, of course, but never mind. Buzz words, being often tricky, insincere or brainless, are part of the Old Paradigm anyway...
...unobstrusive, all-observing Maury Pauvich, Jeschke conveniently stereotypes the Wellesley student as a "giggling and chattering," "self-absorbed" woman with a fetish for hair spray, high heels and strong perfume. We as Wellesley students are offended by having ourselves, along with 2200 other Wellesley women, lumped into this brainless and wanton image so vividly portrayed in this unnecessarily long article...