Word: dumbness
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...admission of women ("conducive to good order"), uniform entrance requirements for U.S. colleges, and teacher training. He looked forward to the day when Columbia would be a great university, complete with such modern additions as schools of engineering, architecture and commerce. Nevertheless, Columbia stayed put in its former deaf & dumb asylum on East 49th Street. It remained for the Midas touch of millionaire President Seth Low and his autocratic successor Nicholas Murray Butler to put Barnard's ideas into practice on Morningside Heights...
...television), the action moves through several disconnected crises. Father kicks the TV set in the tube three times, argues with his wife, and discovers that his offspring talk knowingly about premarital relations. When these gags falter, there are always the in-laws to lampoon, not to mention a dumb blonde, included just to make sure no comical opportunities are missed...
...trenchant analysis of scenario writers has brought the fascinating revelation that we win, primarily, not because the brass is so clever, but because our enemies are abysmally dumb. No piece of stupidity eludes them, and the dimmest of heroic intellects is more than a match for the whole general staff of any anti-U.S. army. Furthermore, Providence (Division of North American Affairs) has arranged that those nations that are first the enemies and then the allies of the United States regain their wits in time to help defeat the next moronic aggressor...
...since 1945 there has ben a sudden shift in I.Q. In Stalag 17 we see a hint when one character warns "Remember, just because the krauts are dumb, that doesn't mean they're stupid." And in The Devil Makes Three several Germans--those helping Gene Kelly--seem almost smart...
...seldom asked to do much work. On Private Secretary, blonde Cinemactress Ann Sothern occasionally pecks at a typewriter, but mostly she is shown trading wisecracks with her boss (Don Porter), getting mink and sable coats from the firm's clients or having her superior business acumen vindicated (dumb as the girls are, they are all far brighter than the men who employ them...