Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...societal injustice. But since wicked serf-owning aristocrats are now hard to find, the message has little relevance, and what remains is a sometimes amusing, sometimes touching vignette of the Russia of Alexander I. The camera follows a huge, strong, good-natured but deaf and dumb peasant, played by Anatol Kochetkov, who is taken from his plow to serve at his mistress' city house. Her whims and the cowardice of the other servants then proceed to ruin his romances, first with a peasant girl, and then with Mumu...
...times Jackie displays a political naivete that makes reporters wonder if she is not reverting to the dumb Dora masquerade of her St. Grottlesex days. When a reporter told her in mid-campaign that he reckoned Jack's New York margin at more than half a million votes, she looked wide-eyed and uncertain: "Really? That's important, isn't it? How nice.'' And when her political duties are over, Jackie shucks her toga with obvious relief. Last October, after the tumultuous ticker-tape parade through Manhattan, she whipped off her reversible coat, turned...
Meanwhile, urgent calls to the state police barracks five miles away got the playing-dumb response of "thank you" and advice to check with Governor Vandiver. Not a single state trooper arrived until long after local police broke up the riot with tear gas at about...
...Castro and Khrushchev," said the News, "but if he does, he'll brand himself as a dishonest man, to say nothing of giving the criminal Communist conspiracy a powerful assist in its drive to enslave the human race. Somehow, we can't picture Kennedy being as dumb and deceitful as that." When President Eisenhower severed relations with Cuba, the Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier found Kennedy's silence "cause for apprehension," the Christian Science Monitor's William Stringer found it "traditional behavior," and the Boston Herald found it reprehensible: "An endorsement by him of the President...
...time will tell and suffers like the divine Miranda with those who for reasons unknown..." and so on for a hundred lines more. The speech elevates Pozzo to an exquisite suffering, and eventually he silences Lucky. When they return in the second act, Pozzo is blind and Lucky dumb, their suffering real, their lives going on as before...