Word: halfwits
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...last Danel Seltzer's Falstaff has entered the present cycle of undergraduates, and if you listen to wise talk, you know already why to see this production. Sir John has been played often enough as an ale-soaked halfwit, his besottedness hesitantly offered as an excuse for his license; Mr. Seltzer is well clear of this feeble nonsense. Between magnificent gusts and wheezes, he calculates with serene deliberation each of the fat knight's lies, each of his aphorisms and fancies, and the result is to show that not only Mr. Seltzer but Falstaff too is always creating the character...
...penitentiary. The voices of the poor exalt Marcy: it is recalled that she went more than 20 miles through waist-deep snow to tend the dying child of a miner when no doctor would get out of bed to do the job, that she was kind to a halfwit, that she soothed an unjustly condemned man in his last hours...
Half a mile from Haverstraw there lived a halfwit fellow, Half his house was brick and red, and half was wood and yellow; Half the town knew half his name but only half could spell it. If you will sit for half an hour, I've half a mind to tell...
...Strada. A bittersweet fable of innocence and the brute concerning a halfwit girl, indentured to a brutal carnival strong man; with Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina (TIME, July...
...tale about a "gentle spy" by Quentin Reynolds. In Reynolds' crackling, reportorial prose, the book describes "quiet, religious" George DuPre, a Canadian who entered British Intelligence early in World War II and prepared for a strange mission. For nine months he was trained to behave like "the village halfwit" so that he could play the part of a harmless, moronic French garage mechanic after he was dropped behind the German lines. The book told how DuPre helped smuggle Allied flyers out of enemy territory until the Gestapo picked him up. The Nazis tortured him with a sulphuric-acid enema...