Word: cretinism
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...filled with every cliche in the current liberal establishment of ideas. Unhappily there is just one thing she can do for her country, for colonial freedom, for Zen enlightenment, for Freud, for minorities, and this she certainly does. For example, she takes the most improbable of her lovers, a cretin with a "radish-white" humped back, because he is so loathsome that he constitutes a superminority...
...Motive? But why had he done it? Perhaps it was merely the power of suggestion. Throughout his whole lifetime, Lee Oswald was plainly a man of demonic frustrations and fanaticisms. His idol seems to have been Fidel Castro. In recent broadcasts, Castro called Kennedy a demagogue, a cretin and a member of an oligarchic family. "We are prepared," he declared, "to fight" the U.S. American leaders "should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe." Maybe all Oswald wanted to be was a hero to his depraved hero...
...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...