Word: dumbness
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Washington reporters, grumbling about the rarity of President Nixon's press conferences, sometimes suggest that he is being secretive. Not at all, contends White House Adviser John D. Ehrlichman: the President doesn't like press conferences because he finds the questions "flabby and fairly dumb." On a Los Angeles TV show, Ehrlichman reported: "I've seen him many times come off one of those things and say 'Isn't it extraordinary how poor the quality of the questions is?' " As for the correspondents themselves, Ehrlichman compared them to "insecure young ladies -they keep asking...
...computation by Stanford's Henry Levin to show that lack of high school diplomas cost 3,000,000 American men $237 billion in their working lifetime because of low wages [May 29] is the kind of dumb logic that has made our education system so ridiculously expensive...
Dropped from high altitudes-rather than on the low-level runs that were necessary to ensure accuracy for unguided "dumb" bombs-the new armaments have made the war far less perilous for American pilots. They also have given flyers the assurance that they can eliminate military targets without the fear that their bombs may fall wide of the mark...
...than in The Stranger, sees himself as a Sisyphus whose particular boulder is office work-"those eight hours a day other people can stand." He pours out his frustration to a rich man named Zagreus who has no legs. Zagreus tells him, "I'd accept even worse - blind, dumb, anything, as long as I feel in my belly that dark fire that is me, me alive." Mer sault is unappeased and unabashed...
...radio is dumb. Some of it, like Bobby Dylan and Smokey Robinson and Mick Jagger, is not so dumb as the rest, but even that stuff avoids obscurity...