Word: cretin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nathan, "enjoys all the attributes of a profound thinker save profundity." Nor did Nathan spare his fellow critics: Said he: "Impersonal criticism is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful. Show me a critic without prejudices, and I'll show you an arrested cretin...
...Police man Mocriau and Priest Lagrave began to exchange remarks. Suddenly, Father Lagrave seized the policeman by the arm and pointed to the letters G.C. (for garde champetre) on his cap. "You know what those letters stand for, don't you," he shouted. "They stand for 'Grand Cretin' (Great Imbecile), and that's exactly what you are!" After that, Civrac-en-Medoc became a village divided. The mayor habitually referred to the violin-playing priest as "that low-life fiddler," and the priest called the mayor a pagan. On the priest's side were...
...once in a great while carries a piece of paper from her desk to a filing cabinet, but, with that chore over, she takes it easy by necking with the boss's son (Ross Ford). My Friend Irma's Marie Wilson is portrayed as a bosomy sub-cretin who spends her office hours listening ecstatically while the recorded voice of a telephone operator recites the time...
...simply, any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts." ¶ Critics and criticism-"Impersonal criticism . . . is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful." "Show me a critic without prejudices, and I'll show you an arrested cretin...
...Diego Rivera has painted at least four portraits of Conquistador Hernando Cortés, always as a handsome, broad-shouldered hero. Last week Rivera fans, examining his latest addition to the murals in Mexico City's National Palace, met a new character, a cross-eyed, hunch backed, bowlegged cretin. "It's Sancho Panza," was their immediate reaction...