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There are underdogs of a kind in his books--McCoy in Bonfire and the good family man Conrad Hensley in A Man in Full . But what horrifies the reader is that these sympathetic figures should sink into America's degraded lumpenproletariat . The lower orders in Wolfe's novels, such as those who populate the jail where Conrad Hensley is imprisoned, are barely above the level of animals.
The Cinderella teams--Gonzaga, Southwest Missouri State, and Miami of Ohio--were wiped out in the last two rounds, leaving no true underdogs.
Reporters always like to take popular people down, and they're trained to sympathize with underdogs ("afflict the comfortable, comfort the afflicted").
The great mass of proverbs, though, are for the lips of the governed, those proverbial underdogs.
The Independent called it "a blaze of gloire " and added: "In a year of remarkable sporting finishes, here was the most unexpected of victories for the most enchanting of underdogs over the most intimidating of favorites.