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Word: idiot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Invitation to Learning (Sun. 11:35 a.m., CBS). Author James Michener and Editor William Rogers discuss Dostoevsky's The Idiot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jan. 5, 1953 | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...Farmer Steenbock's own granddaughter, eight-year-old Bärbel Süfke, youngest child of his twice-married, 40-year-old daughter Rosa. On questioning, Rosa Süfke claimed that she had hid the child soon after birth because she feared it was an idiot and health officials might take it away. Grandfather Steenbock insisted that it was brought downstairs occasionally at Christmas time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Prisoner in the Attic | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...television has always been that the networks not only sell commercial spots to their sponsors but often let the advertisers control the programs as well. This week NBC made a major move to reverse the trend. It signed an unprecedented contract with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Dramatist & Biographer Robert Sherwood (Idiot's Delight, Roosevelt and Hopkins], guaranteeing him more than $100,000 for a series of nine original hour-long TV plays to be written during the next three years. An even more important and unusual stipulation: Sherwood may write about any subject he chooses (except religious controversy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Quality Begins at Home | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...idiot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RADCLIFFE GIRL | 10/29/1952 | See Source »

...wife, Doris Dalton is a woman who loves her husband, but would rather have him broken than not at all. The chief psychiatrist, played by Kendall Clark is an unimaginative idiot, who cannot think beyond a work association test. Clark's acting, however, makes the man a bit too stupid to be believable...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: The Shrike | 10/22/1952 | See Source »

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