Word: mindlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exaggeration to say that liberals' distaste for critical self-examination gave the country eight destructive years of Reaganism. Unless liberals abandon mindless defense of obvious failures, we can only look forward to many more...
...Mindless Nitpicking Dept.: What does Lehigh University have against women? Nothing, really. But an unexplained quirk in the athletic coupon book seems to imply that females were not welcome at the Harvard v. Lehigh football game. The coupons for every other game announce, in p.c. gender-neutral language, that students must present the signed coupon "with a Harvard identification card." The Lehigh game, for some reason, was open only to those with a coupon "signed by the owner, with his bursar's card...
Silber's outspokenness is not limited to educational matters. Whether writing or speaking, he characteristically offers opinions on everything from Nicaragua (pro-contra) and Gorbachev (don't trust him) to abortion (pro-life) and Jesse Jackson (full of "mindless, rhyming pieces of nonsense on which he has built a career"). One of his central philosophical tenets is the necessity of accepting hardship and disappointment. "I'm sorry I didn't put 'death' into the index," he said in an interview. "I really believe that confrontation with death and with reality is necessary to moral education...
...products meant for the young, to inform those entrusted by law with the care of the young? Liberals were the first to promote "healthy" television shows like Sesame Street and The Electric Company. In the 1950s and 1960s they were the leading critics of television, of its mindless violence, of the way it ravaged the attention span needed for reading. Who was keeping kids away from TV sets then? How did promoters of Big Bird let themselves be cast as champions of the Beastie Boys -- not just of their right to perform but of their performance itself? Why should...
...amnesia, the disorder of advanced electronic societies, is not the only possible derangement of national memory. There are cultures that remember nothing and cultures that forget nothing. Forgetting nothing might be worse. Remembering nothing produces a mere mindless, stumbling insouciance. Forgetting nothing produces paralysis and death...