Word: dumbness
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...stories in their readers eliminate Dick, Jane and Spot in favor of history, geography and Arabian Nights fantasy. One student's daughter was taunted by a neighbor who said her father was attending "dumb school"; she replied that she was proud of him. Kids surreptitiously aid parents. One homework book came back to school marked by a helpful child: "If you look on page six, you'll find the answer...
...Guignol, unreels with grisly assurance. The plot involves "a homicidal maniac-bent on revenge by the most horrible means possible." Though locked in the family vault, a late and unlamented patriarch seemingly wants to settle his estate heir by heir. One morning the hired girl comes up on the dumb-waiter head first. Head only, in fact. Subsequent victims are cruelly disfigured, dragged behind a horse, stabbed, burned alive, or drowned in the bath. In this orgy of supermarket sadism, the blood looks like Brand X catchup, but there's plenty to splash around...
...Europe, a phenomenal 15%, and has achieved that growth by defying Moscow. The original role Khrushchev had charted for Rumania under its Comecon plan-the Red version of the Common Market-was that of an agricultural exporter and supplier of oil and petrochemicals. Dej refused to accept this "dumb-peasant" role, struck out on his own three years ago to do as much business with the West as possible...
Bernays said that he saw a state-wide campaign against the underpasses shaping up, and cited an article in this week's Time magazine as evidence of growing public interest. "I think an informed public, when as--and of--aroused, is stronger than dumb politicians," he said...
...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE are two sharply observed but compassionate one-act comedies - about a bashful boy who finds that his chosen Venus is just another dumb blonde, and a brash detective who chews macaroons and Brazil nuts and sweetly seasons a marriage that is stewing in acrid juices...