Quotes About Clevinger

Clevinger is a very bright guy, a Harvard man, who knows everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

In short, he was a dope. He often looked to Yossarian like one of those people hanging around modern museums with both eyes together on one side of a face. It was an illusion, of course, generated by Clevinger's predilection for staring fixedly at one side of a question and never seeing the other side at all.

Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out

Superman?' Clevinger cried. 'Superman?' 'Supraman,' Yossarian corrected.

Everyone agreed that Clevinger was certain to go far in the academic world. In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains