Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...close friend of Helen Keller, the author said that she has a "special feeling for Radcliffe, because of the picture I have of a blind, denf and dumb girl passing its examinations. No fairy tale was ever more heroic...
Nice Boys Lose. Certainly much of Schulz's own life is in the strip: the harrowing little frustrations, the countless near-misses. "I guess I'm 100% Charlie Brown. Sixty million people read about the dumb things I did when I was little." Born in Minneapolis in 1922, Schulz was dubbed Sparky (after the rambunctious, blanket-draped horse in the strip Barney Google) when he was two days old, and the name stuck. As a boy, Sparky avidly read the comics, sketched illustrations of Sherlock Holmes stories and of his own dog Spike (Snoopy's model...
...problem, Sands holds, is to unscramble the convict's twisted values of what is smart and what is dumb. "I've been a con, as smart and tough as they come," he tells the prisoners, "but I'm not a wise guy any more. All the wise guys I know are in here-the smartest ones of all didn't even come to the show, they're in the hole. They call guys like me square Johns, dummies. Yeah. All us square Johns are on the outside...
...schools. The courts are gummed up with hundreds of cases as the South tries to resist herding incompetent and inexperienced voters to the polls and race mixing in the school rooms." Last week, in the wake of violence at Selma, Ala., the Journal had a far different message: "By dumb, cruel and vastly excessive force, we have made new civil rights legislation almost a dead certainty; we have stained the state and put the lie to its claims of peace and harmony; given enough rope, as if they haven't already been supplied it, our strategists will hang...
...from 22 auditioned by Producer David Susskind, stretch from Washington, D.C., to the state of Washington, and their repertory has a still wider reach-from Euripides to Beckett. Last week the guest company was Chicago's Hull House Theater, their offering was Harold Pinter's demanding The Dumb Waiter. And their rendition? So stunningly effective as to be worth the series' syndication price alone...