Tom Carson's review of Bob Dylan's "Chronicles" (Oct . 24 punctures a lot of the mystique, but also reveals some basic ignorance of the Greenwich Village folk scene.
"In part," concludes the magazine, "this work fits into a proud tradition of social science research demonstrating the basic ignorance of the average American".
Clouding that intent is an essential part of the job.All the more extraordinary, then, that Wim Duisenberg, the head of the European Central Bank (ECB), should betray basic ignorance of the rules.
Even their health is a state secret.Such basic ignorance, however, has not stopped China-watching, once the arcane pursuit of a few experts, from becoming a vast industry.
"It is easy to suggest that the care is experimental and/or cosmetic out of basic ignorance but that is not accurate and has been routinely debunked by science and medicine".
Tsongkhapa characterizes basic ignorance (Sk. avidyā), the root cause of suffering in Buddhist philosophy, not as a latent tendency, but as an active defiling agency (Sk. kleśāvaraṇa) that projects a reality onto objects that is in fact absent from them.
As a newcomer to national politics, he was given the benefit of the doubt even when he displayed basic ignorance about foreign affairs and other matters.
But it takes courage to accuse him of engaging in nonsense or purveying an idea that is "a monument to ignorance of basic economic concepts".
"He continues to display an alarming ignorance of basic facts of contemporary international politics".
Seated cross-legged on concrete cell floors, the men, most of them Pakistanis, profess a blithe ignorance of the basics of warfare, much less terrorism.
