Word: dumbness
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...only tuition for the course is a 25? token fee required by the high school where the classes are held. Hauer set the pace at a slow academic rate; he gives no tests, receives class papers unsigned ("Each one of these men came convinced he's the only dumb one in the class...
...Dumb to Know. In whatever he did, Bernard DeVoto was tributary to nothing. He was father confessor to scores of Harvard students who, he thought, had a sincere desire to be writers. But when it came to sham-either academic or political-he could be merciless. Occasionally, his reputation for sounding off on everything, whether big or small, tended to becloud his reputation as a serious scholar...
...defied Massachusetts law by publicly buying a copy of the banned novel Strange Fruit. He raged at New Dealers for thinking the people "too dumb to know what is best for them," but he hated "the Old Guard minds" among Republicans and became one of Adlai Stevenson's top campaign writers. He said that Ernest Hemingway's characters were "anthropoids," that those of Dos Passes were "diminished marionettes." He cham pioned Pareto, James Farrell and Robert Frost, denounced Van Wyck Brooks, Thomas Wolfe and practically everyone else. Of modern Western women he said: "I should like to call...
...write for the press, broadcast or hold public office. But the transfer of sovereignty to the West German government invalidated the case against Naumann. Notified of this, unregenerate Nazi Naumann returned to active politics last week, an example to all Germans of the difference between the smart and the dumb war criminal...
...remarkably like Richardson's Pamela--if she ever showed any sign of not becoming what she ultimately does. If it seemed that Marjorie had any choice in the matter of whether she would be Lady Brett Ashley or "Shirley," in short, if she were not so awfully dumb, then we would be more likely to share her heart throbs and such. Marjorie's final conventional resting place may very well be morally admirable, but her literary progress there...