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First Larry Brown drove the Crimson 65 yards in nine plays, with Jon Sigillito doing the honors on an eight-yard pitchout. This march was the first of three in the opening half, when Harvard's offensive line treated the Dartmouths with Rodney Dangerfield-like respect. In other words, with none. The holes that opened were immense, and at least on this day, Brown, Sigillito, Ralph Polillio, and Chris Doherty looked like the Four Horsemen of Fresh Pond Parkway...
...pretty good, y'know Bruddah. How about yerself?" I replied in the best imitation of Rodney Dangerfield's Brooklyn accent I could muster...
...beans, the Rodney Dangerfield of the legume family. They just don't get no respect. Their appearance at the dinner table inevitably results in guilty faces and bad poetry. And then there's the wise guy who always brings up Alex Karras's role in Blazing Saddles...
...theme of denied fulfillment--and its relation to money--is expanded in quite a different way in Donleavy's next novels, A Singular Man, The Saddest Summer of Balthazar B, and particularly The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B. In Beastly Beatitudes, Donleavy proffers a hero entirely antithetical to Sebastian Dangerfield. Balthazar ("possession of treasure") is sincere, decent, loving and wealthy. Yet he is plagued by the same consuming unhappiness as Dangerfield. The tone of the whole book, in fact, is unlike that of The Ginger Man: Balthazar B is a wistful tale, and though lightened by brilliant flashes of humor...
...surprising then, that The Unexpurgated Code should display such unmitigated humor. On the surface, it would seem that the old Sebastian Dangerfield had won out in Donleavy. Yet somewhere between the lines of the narrator's counsels and the social spoofing, you sense in Donleavy an inverted romanticism, a genuine attachment to the order and chivalry of the aristocracy, a sadness that living is not what he would conceive it or hope it to be. In the jacket photo, Donleavy's face is wary, truculent even, thoroughly distrustful. You suspect the jaunty mien, the gentlemanly deportment, is a carefully constructed...