Word: ignoramuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientific knowledge increased that it has become impossible for one man to comprehend all of it even in outline form. The result has been an increasing number of trained people who know their own field and little else-a type of what Ortega y Gasset calls the "learned ignoramus...
...young (37) White House physician was there to assert that he was an utter ignoramus about his speculation in the commodity markets. He almost succeeded in proving it. Although he was a trader on margin, he said he did not know the meaning of the term "margin" (a woman sitting behind him snickered: "That's what you spread on bread...
...interment of inflation. The recession, they said, would come in the spring. As Barron's financial weekly put it: "The 1947 depression, recession, or shakeout, whichever one calls it, has advanced from a fear to a fad. Not to believe in its imminence stamps one an ignoramus...
...worry any longer because only one of them was still a celebrity. And once a mutual friend was telling a Zurich innkeeper about Lennie. The innkeeper had never heard of "one of America's most important journalists?" Point of the anecdote: the fellow was obviously an ignoramus; he had never heard of Winchell, either...
...unfinished Cathedral more than 20 years. One of a tailor's ten children, he grew up in the British cathedral town of Exeter, entered a Gothic studio as an apprentice ornament-carver when he was 14. Says Sculptor Angel: "I never went to school; I'm an ignoramus...