The portrait of the scholar as a dumb man

[Otro neoyorquino hijo de emigrantes judíos cambiando el mundo.

Yo no sé si voy a volver una vez que conozca esa ciudad]

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, and everyone knew it except those who soon found out.

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.

[Joseph HELLER 2004 Catch-22. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperback. Pg. 68]