Word: daft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...daft idea," says Knopfler...
Spring's Awakening, which Wedekind subtitled "A Tragedy of Childhood," concerns the sexual awakening of adolescence, "the first stirrings of manhood," the unleashing of the dogs of sex. The protagonists--Melchior, Moritz, Wendla, and Ilse--feel these stirrings, and are confused by them, and find no direction from a daft and hypocritical matriarchy. Left to fend for themselves in the erotic floodtide, some swim, others drown. This, for Wedekind, is the central point; the sexual impulse is merely a force, and as a force has no moral content; it should be recognized as such, and neither hidden nor judged...
...asked in an offhand way, "Bolshoye?" This is the word for big, and was a question in reference to the size of the fish he hoped to extract from the river. He turned very slowly and looked at me from under a crumpled hat as if I were daft. I backed up behind him and riffled the pages of the dictionary for small, just to keep things going, but he had turned back to his line, staring down at the float with such determination that I gave up and hurried down the quay...