Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heroics, and obviously wanted nothing more than peace and quiet after their hazardous call to duty ended. In this book, however, MacLean has smashed the mold. Secret Agent Philip Calvert, his new hero, must have got his basic training by watching James Bond movies. Calvert is simply too incredibly dumb to be taken seriously. Assigned to track down pirates in the Irish Sea, Calvert stumbles on the gang right away. But instead of sensibly going for help, he hangs around long enough to be shot down in a helicopter, and endures so many beatings, near stranglings and near drownings that...
...this picture they don't happen in a believable way. There is too much hoke in the violence, too much duh-duh in the dialogue. And the hog stompers, when not actually stomping somebody, are played for cheap laughs as a fright-wigged cast of slum-dumb characters. In real life, man, they are something else...
...monkey was as placid and healthy as ever, but the decision maker died-of ulcers. The Morrises charitably refrain from pointing out the obvious moral, which is not that man's nearest neighbor is smart enough to get ulcers, but that the ape's nearest neighbor is dumb enough to inflict them...
...comes, he cooks, he conquers. The girl, a nice dumb redhead (Julie Sommars) who talks as if she thinks Bach comes in bottles, tempts Ted to prove the one thing he is never really sure of: his virility. To ease his fear, he betrays his friend, but poor bumbling Bob refuses to accept betrayal. Galvanized by indignation, he demonstrates that true virility is not a matter of sexual prowess but of spiritual force...
...Detroit Tigers since 1963, a sawed-off (5 ft. 6 in.) onetime third baseman for the Cincinnati Reds, who ate a lot of chile con carne and acted that way, squaring off nose to belt with 6-ft. umpires and peppering his men with insults ("All ballplayers is dumb, but outfielders is the dumbest"), an approach which took him in and out of nine teams as a coach or manager, and somehow gave him two years of glory when he led the Brooklyn Dodgers to pennants in 1952 and 1953; of a heart attack; in Detroit...