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...idea, although newcomers are shocked by the easy give-and-take of discussions. At his Episcopal church in Ignacio, Calif., Vicar Charles Gompertz occasionally stirs up dialogue by stationing a "plant" in the congregation. During a sermon, the plant may stand up and yell: "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard!" Says Gompertz: "It really blows their minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preaching: Backtalk from the Pew | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...just what's wrong with you people anyway? After the recent events in Viet Nam you should be dancing in the streets. From a military standpoint it's the dumbest move the Commies could have made. For over two years now, your boys have been poking behind trees and down holes in the ground looking for Charlie, and Charlie has been found only when he wanted to be found and when conditions were all in his favor. Now he has very obligingly congregated in the heart of the cities and sits there waiting to be wiped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 16, 1968 | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 19, 1966 | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

Crumlish Jr., his former boss, but also inveighed against Mayor James Tate, whom he branded as the "dumbest mayor ever in a big city." Beating his Democratic opponent by 325,395 votes to 289,174, Specter became the first Republican candidate to win a major municipal office in Philadelphia in a dozen years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: The Negro's New Force | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

...tragic. We had the dumbest graduate students east of the Mississippi," he said...

Author: By Martin S. Levine, | Title: Faculty Accord Likely On Scheffler Proposals | 9/27/1965 | See Source »

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