And he was constitutionally unable to hold his tongue. He was brilliant but callow, like the nation sometimes was. But he was also importantly American for other reasons.
McEnroe, as the recent HBO documentary “McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice” explained, shocked England precisely because he was a stereotypical Ugly American: brash, arrogant, indecorous. It’s time for dinner? You cannot be serious! I have to clean my room? You cannot be serious! But there’s a broader application. It was tremendously cathartic to march around the house for a few days saying, “You cannot be serious” to anything I was told. I was eleven, a fan of tennis but a bigger fan of anger.
“You Cannot Be Serious” became the title of his memoir, and the phrase has surfaced in a variety of contexts, mostly comic he reused it when he appeared as a guest star on “30 Rock.” But today, on the anniversary of the original offense, I would like to propose a more auspicious use for it. It was not his first or his last or his most violent. OL8076169W Page_number_confidence 95.85 Pages 378 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200616171031 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 583 Scandate 20200610083000 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780316859868 Tts_version 3.That was not the only McEnroe meltdown. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 12:01:27 Associated-names Kaplan, James, 1951- Boxid IA1834024 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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