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Mystery enshrouds Marcie, and for several chapters neither Oliver nor the reader knows her last name or what she does. As it turns out, her name is Binnendale, and if that sounds like a dullard's play on the name of a fashionable department store, no wonder. She is, in fact, owner of a fashionable chain of department stores. Surprise...
...Alex Webster, then the coach of the stumbling New York Giants football team, and running part of it backward on the air with no sound. Webster was not amused by the gimmick, which made him look like a demented Donald Duck. Claiming that he had been portrayed as a "dullard and a stupid person," he sued Bouton for $3 million...
...magnificent tirade in Anthony Burgess's novel The Clockwork Testament or Enderby 's End, the poet Enderby rails at his dullard "creative writing" class: "All that's going to save your immortal soul, maaaaaan, if you have one, is words . . . Sooner or later you're all going to jail . . . All you'll have is language, the great conserver . . . Compose in your head. The time will come when you won't even be allowed a stub of pencil and the back of an envelope." There is perhaps too much doomsday in that advice, but anyone...
RANK list standing is not a sensible criterion for screening the kind of Independent Studies being done now. A lower rank list student who may be unhappy with formal course structures and no dullard, should be allowed to take an Independent Study if he has the ingenuity and initiative to set one up. Similarly, there is no reason to close off the benefits of the program to sophomores; Independent Study might liven up this year, whose sluggishness is legendary. The CEP should also make the signature of the sponsor and perhaps of a senior official in that department enough authorization...
...blues poetry of Sam Cooke, Otis Red Dog Herskovitz. The Lovin' Spoonful "jump-cut" provocatively among narratives, and interrogatives; such lively imagination no-one demanded or would have appreciated a few years ago. One can see Dylan's influence sifted down to the bottom of the heap when a dullard like P.F. Sloane ("Eve of Destruction") manages a rime as interest...