Word: dumbness
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American landscape painting languished in the closet until quite recently. The impulse to record the primal shapes of land, vegetation, light, water and sky, enormously important to American art in the 19th century, was tagged throughout the 1960s as regressive, unmodernist, dumb-everything, in fact, that an acrylic stripe on unprimed duck could never be. Photography had taken care of landscape; one could leave it to the National Geographic...
...county sessions. In precincts that Ford carried, the losers argued that their own long service to the G.O.P. entitled them to some representation at the county conventions. Moans Fred Baker: "We let them go. We didn't even have any pros to guide us. Jesus Christ, our poor dumb people...
...Revolution, Itard achieved a minor miracle in teaching Victor at all. The foremost doctors of the day were quick to declare Victor a congenital idiot and asked to banks him to the inhuman, rat-infested cubicles which served as the asylums of Paris. "He's not deaf and dumb because he was left in the forest, he was left in the forest because he was deaf and dumb," they said, and one rumor had Victor the illegitimate son of a provincial notaire who cast him into the woods to avoid the social embarrassment of raising a retarded bastard...
Jones stresses that this isn't a "dumb jock course" and is quite sensitive about the course's nickname. For five weeks, students are asked to keep logs detailing their daily activities. A paper based on the log enables the student to analyze his overall lifestyle in the Harvard society and determine factors that affect day-to-day decisions...
...deaf and dumb...