Word: dufferism
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...like comedy of nationalities, a comparable use of picturesque detail; in one play a needed road is stalled in red tape, in the other it is a needed schoolhouse; in one, an engaging young native sage holds forth, in the other it is an engaging young native duffer. But the difference between the two plays' titles helps explain their enormous eventual difference in tone. Mister Johnson is really, from beginning to end, the portrait of a happy-go-unlucky man, the saga of a culturally displaced person. A comedy of miscomprehension that explodes into sudden tragedy...
...went to the practice tee with Pro Ed Dudley. The President had played only once since he left Denver Oct. 15, and his game had deteriorated. When his foursome teed off, Ike's drives were often wild, his putting sour. He was disgusted and threatened, like any Sunday duffer, to abandon the game forever. Montgomery used to be a golfer, but he injured a vertebra in a plane accident after the war, and has given up the sport. He followed the foursome in an electric scooter...
...down in two to tie Byron Nelson. He snapped: "Why didn't somebody tell me this before?" He was so rattled that his game collapsed. He made the green on his fifth stroke, holed out in three putts that would have appalled a Sunday duffer, and pushed his way through the silent crowd muttering, "Ah threw it away. Ah threw it away." Why He Goes Wrong. Some experts attribute Snead's blowups to lack of intelligent planning. "If Walter Hagen could caddy for him [and call his shots for him]," Gene Sarazen once said, "he could...
...drink and bought the latest "Stars and Stripes." The headline on the sports page said, "Harvard Coach Eyes First Win Over Elis." My Gawd, thought Vag, they're playing in New Haven tomorrow. Oh, well, have to grow up some day and who'd want to be the only duffer at the 25th reunion who had never missed a Yale game? Anyway, didn't Jordan Olivar say last week that it was just another football game. The mere thought of Olivar set Vag to cursing him for that asinine Yaeger stunt...
...Nixon, a duffer who quailed visibly when asked by cameramen to display his swing. By the time Ike flubbed a five-foot putt on the ninth hole, it looked as if things were back to normal in vacationland...