Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Commoner to enter-and lose-the presidential race against William McKinley. Circle Theater took another aghast look at Communist intrigue with The Case of Colonel Petrov,who defected two years ago from the Soviet embassy in Australia. As pictured on TV by Michael Gorrin, Petrov seemed far too dumb to have been head of Red espionage down under, and the show spent much of its time commiserating over the soul struggles of Sanford Meisner, playing the Australian counterspy who won Petrov to freedom...
...Dartmouth, and Wise Acres no nearer the boards, Chick and Nickie watch the hidden land mines of life blowing up all around them. Having told himself, "I must under no condition marry this girl," Chick does marry his beautiful but dumb childhood sweetheart, Crystal. What is more, babies follow. Chick's father-in-law, who runs the advice column for the local paper, gets him a job writing Pepigrams ("All work and no play make Jack"). And then the old boy dies "on third" of a heart attack during a charity softball game, and Chick inherits the advice column...
...disease, and any moment may be his last. That is why Ace Pitcher Wiggen makes it part of his contract that Bruce must be kept on with the Mammoths as long as he is. That is why the players who had got their kicks out of riding the dumb catcher suddenly expose hidden reserves of tenderness and simple decency. There is one bad apple, and that is Katie, the beautiful prostitute with whom Catcher Bruce is in love. Unlike the cliche harlot of fiction, she is as short of compassion as Bruce is of IQ. Only when she learns that...
...every personal, social and political problem that modern life can present. He even tackles that old favorite of the girls: Should I be a Good-Time-with-the-Boys or a Darling-I'm-So-Glad-I-Waited lassie? Waugh's implication (that men are much too dumb to know if a girl has waited or not) is the only trace of cynicism in a book that is filled to overflowing with a sense of boneless wonder...
...socially conscious '30s, when rage was all the rage, James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan seemed the sort of protest against a poor slum kid's lot that dumb, brutish Studs himself might have written if he could write. But the U.S. stopped singing the hard-time blues, and time moved on, forgetting to leave James T. Farrell a forwarding address. French Girls Are Vicious, a book of short stories, is mainly steamed up about sex, or the lack of it, and might be subtitled "the pursuit of unhappiness...