Word: dumbness
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...subway, the smell and pressure of flesh make her sick with disgust. Dread like suppuration oozes from the deep, unmedicated wound in her mind. She sinks into fevered apathy, and one day in a daze almost jumps off-does it always have to be a bridge? Anyway, a big dumb slob of a grease monkey (Ralph Meeker) grabs her just in time...
...dining hall service that has only one House dining hall open the night before school resumes is pretty dumb...
...adopted as a policy for running an athletic program. It is to request that Harvard stop excusing below-par performances by its teams by saying it can't recruit. Of course, admission to Harvard requires intelligence; but there is no immediately evident proof that smart athletes are worse than dumb ones...
...girls are just as good. Linda Bauer skillfully portrays Lucy, the maid, as an engaging, tough little tramp, and Shelia Stannard (Alithea), in spite of some awkward moments, makes an art form out of blandness. Tam Miller as Margery Pinchwife is magificently dumb, and leaps around the stage like an oversexed gnome. As for Emilie Rahman as Lady Fidget--boy, that Emilie Rahman. She is the best thing in the play as the wise-cracking, tough-talking Lady-always-in-waiting...
...Some candidates and even some editors seem to spend most of their time in the building, and there is loss in that. A big gain from CRIMSON work is the reason and excuse you get to see all kinds of people in the Harvard community and ask them dumb questions. Anybody can go about Harvard asking bright questions, and some people make a career of it. But the CRIMSON, WHRB, the Student Council have the special license is in constant use, and note that is has the effect of keeping innocence alive here, barely alive, it is true, but alive...