Word: dumbness
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...lose, the Tennessee Cannonball was good for a laugh, liked to tell stories on himself. Once, in a game with Princeton, the referee penalized Yale ten yards because Hickman was coaching from the sidelines. "I ran after him; the coach recounted, "and shouted. 'Why, you dumb so-and-so, you don't even know that the penalty for [that] is 15 yards!' The referee looked at me scornfully and said, 'For the kind of coaching you're doing, it's only ten.' " Born in Johnson City, Tenn., Herman Hickman was an All-America...
...Folks are dumb where I come from...
...nasty world of General Motors and General Eisenhower has, in short, proved so confusing and so dumb, so pre-occupied with false values and false gods, that the sensitive soul can only recoil in to himself, where, in a snug world--"the inner world of the human psyche," The Editor calls it--a fellow can find himself and discover the "most meaningful truth." But even in this hallowed precinct, citizen-youth finds no peace, for in withdrawal, today's young people "are endangering society's future" because they are failing to cope with the issues of the cold war. Eventually...
...confused with any of the many other Beautiful but movies, e.g., Beautiful but Broke, Beautiful but Dumb, Beautiful, but Dummies...
...Quiet American (Figaro; United Artists). "Innocence," wrote Graham Greene in the novel from which this film is somewhat speciously taken, "is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm." The leper of modern history, as Greene sees him, is the American-he of the "young and unused face" who has made "a profession of friendship, as though it were law or medicine," and who goes about the world infecting whole continents with the botch of good will. On one level the book is a passionate editorial against U.S. innocence abroad. On another...