Word: half-wit
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...amusing thing about moving pictures," wrote voluble William Saroyan, "is the enormous number of nonentities who work together to make something any normal half-wit would prefer not to make in the first place...
Burgess Meredith as George is adequate, but Lon Chaney, Jr. as Lennie is a too-conventional half-wit, even to the throaty voice and harsh r's. The bit parts are the heart of the movie, and from start to finish are woven into powerful moods of pity, despair, and humility...
...Jesus Christ, but it hain't." He never whimpered, not even when his old man laid him cold, and he was first of the gang to find out about sex at first hand. Such accomplishments and wisdom ranked high with his followers: Wickie Winters, scabby-faced, half-dressed, half-wit son of a washerwoman; Cockie Werner, whose only talent was catching frogs; Nutsie Doane, also ordinary, except for a crooked arm, the result of having a broken arm re-broken by his drunken...
RORY AND BRAN-Lord Dunsany-Putnam ($2.50). Adventures of a half-wit youth and his dog in the pixillated Irish countryside; in the same vein but not the same class as James Stephens' Crock of GoId...
...little farm, settle down to make their dream come true. But then things began to go wrong. The boss's son was an ugly customer, and he had just married a floozy who kept him at a white heat of suspicion. When he picked on Lennie, the big half-wit got so panicky that he seized his little tormentor's hand, crushed it nearly to bits. George managed to get them out of that scrape, but when Lennie accidentally broke the floozy's neck, there was only one thing George could do to remedy that. Knowing where...