Word: dumber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is a general and valid acknowledgment that the better the painter the dumber he must be, and out of this dumbness the critic is born and makes hay." French-born Jean Chariot, who wrote that bitter-seeming remark, is himself a cheerful contradiction of it. Chariot (rhymes with Hello) makes hay on both sides of the field. Last week his paintings and colored lithographs were packing people in at Colorado Springs's George Nix Gallery (including museum buyers from as far away as Washington, D.C. and San Diego), while Chariot himself expatiated on art in the Colorado Springs...
Things were different, sure, but there were compensating factors. Like the Radcliffe girls. They were dumber now, he thought, but a helluva lot better looking. Sometimes, when Vag had had a sufficient amount of beer at the O.G., he could get sentimental about the good old days, and all that stuff, but not now, not at ten o'clock in the morning with the April sun shining through the elms. The love songs were different, but they were just as good as the old ones, and most of the guys were back and most of them were just like...
...afraid the Sergeant has been influenced by these Nazi pushovers, and they are just that. If Bundenthal likes this "natural, Godgiven beauty," I'll take Elsie the Cow. She couldn't be dumber, she's got more personality, and she gives milk too. And all the boys here in the RAT Bn. agree...
...About James Farrell and Steinbeck, and W. H. Auden and MacNeice. (MacNeice? MacNeice? Never heard of him. But Steinbeck wrote "Of Mice and Men" and he had seen that in the movies.) About Dreiser and Dostoevski and Proust and Flaubert and Sterne and someone named George Borrow. Vag felt dumber and dumber. He hadn't known there were so many damn authors in the world he hadn't read. About Gide. Vag thought he was the bird who wrote the French 6 textbook, but he wasn't sure. About the young Radical Poets of England and Gerald Manley Hopkins...
...flood of acceptances rained on the CRIMSON from South Hadley yesterday as Mount Holyoke's dumber but more beautiful damsels finally caught on to the full implications of the editors' invitation to "Share Our Showers...