Word: dumbness
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...time that Indians got off their goddam asses and stopped letting white people lead them around by their noses," says Lehman Brightman, a South Dakota Sioux now working on a Ph.D. at Berkeley. "Even the name Indian is not ours. It was given to us by some dumb honky who got lost and thought he'd landed in India...
Patton opens with the general's famous exhortation to the troops: "I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." Brimming with messianic zeal, the movie general struts about North Africa as if he imagined himself a Carthaginian commander. And that is precisely what the real Patton thought he was. A mirror-gazing mystic, Patton believed in reincarnation and wrote odes to himself in his other lives. Today such attitudes in a draftee might bar him from...
...Tennyson once advised a recent bride that she could consider herself fortunate if her husband treated her as "something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse." Queen Victoria, an early champion of the society, declared that "no civilization can be complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures." By her standards, Britain has reached Utopia...
...likely that Cavett is really that dumb. Perhaps he acts that way because talk-show hosts are supposed to be innocuous, or because he is trying to disguise the fact that his guests are talking about serious subjects. Or he may feel that it would be inappropriate to appear to agree or disagree with a guest depending on what kind of stance that guest is talking...
That was rather like my reaction to Die Fledermans (in English) . It was really entertaining; too bad 1 was too dumb to appreciate...