Word: dumbness
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...dumb acceptance of the course system is a sort of dull marriage, then academic abandon (to use an overworked but apt image) can be a series of love affairs: liaisons with historical and literary figures, with movements past and present, with the seashore, with "great ideas," with cities (like Durrell), with mathematics and music.... At times, this process is seemingly unproductive, and prominent among the metaphors of academic abandon is "gestation"--an unseen but strongly felt growth. Like rebellion against the grade system, such metaphors can serve either as excuses for not working or, in the ideal case of academic...
CAPRI: BREATHLESS has been deposited on these shores by France's fast receding nouvelle vague. Jean-Paul Belmondo gives a magnificent portrait of modern Gallic decadence; Jean Seberg, type cast as ever, is his dumb-blonde American moll. Evenings...
...swore before Senator Estes Kefauver's Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee last week that he had just not been aware of how much illegal price fixing had been going on all around him. How come? Replied Scots-born Robert Paxton, a most emphatic witness: "I was damn dumb...
...baby in question is 'Chang, named after Po Chang, the great Zen master who said, "When you are tired, sleep." David Wincham, bearded and sandaled eldest son of Sir Alfred and Lady Wincham, has picked up the stray Chinese tot, along with a dumb blonde wife and the lingo of Zen. According to the head psychiatrist at NATO, David is suffering from a "Pull to the East" that has carried him across the Channel and as far as the British embassy in Paris, where his father is serving as ambassador in the early...
...societal injustice. But since wicked serf-owning aristocrats are now hard to find, the message has little relevance, and what remains is a sometimes amusing, sometimes touching vignette of the Russia of Alexander I. The camera follows a huge, strong, good-natured but deaf and dumb peasant, played by Anatol Kochetkov, who is taken from his plow to serve at his mistress' city house. Her whims and the cowardice of the other servants then proceed to ruin his romances, first with a peasant girl, and then with Mumu...