Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University: He skids through school with honors, reading and writing when he good and wants to, and playing badminton with neighborhood rich folk. He impulsively marries a long-legged blonde he though he had saved from a crazed bisexual professor at an Austin party. The blonde is, in fact, dumb and the professor rather decent. With his new wife and his first novel advance money, he emigrates to San Francisco, loses his wife to a motorcycle bum, falls in love with an L.A. cartoonist whom he meets while scripting the film made from his novel, and becomes justly depressed when...
That's the Digger, Jerry Doherty. Big, tough, dumb-smart, the owner of a workingmen's bar. A sometime crook who has done time for possession of stolen TV sets. Now he's in trouble. He's flown out to Las Vegas and he's signed $18,000 worth of markers. He doesn't have the money. Digger's immediate problem is the Greek. It is the Greek who must collect the $18,000 plus $400 a week vigorish. He's tough, of course, but the idea of twisting the Digger...
...some presents. She has left him in the care of a Southern nurse (Bella Jarrett). She, it develops, is an alcoholic who once gave a patient the wrong medicine. He, it develops, wants the wrong medicine - death - as surcease from sorrow. He is caustic; she is dumb. They are both anguished spirits, with a scarifying lack of control over the lethal game they are playing...
...December. It was Heschel whose persuasive efforts at the Vatican helped win Roman Catholics away from trying to convert Jews. "If there are some Protestant sects who still cling to this silly hope of proselytizing [Jews]," he said, "I would say that they are blind and deaf and dumb...
...designs of the new sculptured jewelry are beautiful [Dec. 18]. When I was 19, I too thought diamonds and other precious stones were gauche. Now I really wish I hadn't said dumb things like that...