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Word: idiot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addict "not of the super, the egghead, type of program . . . but of mysteries, westerns, crime stories, true stories and a quiz or two. He is lost. I get myself comfortable on the living-room sofa by the fire with a book, and presently I hear the beginning of the idiot commercial and know it has started again. Sometimes I watch too; sometimes I stick to the book. But the professor is faithful-all too often he is faithful. One evening there was an unusual amount of shouting and bawling. When it was over I said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: No Longer Square | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...Devil Strikes at Night (German). A psychopolitical thriller: the story of he village idiot who challenged the Nazi monopoly on wholesale murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...could hardly believe my eyes when I saw J. S. Martin's letter in your Nov. 10 issue. This is a free country, but you should have enough judgment not to publicize a senseless letter calling the President of the U.S. a "golf playing idiot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 8, 1958 | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

There were some kind words for TV, too. Conceded Bob Arthur: "TV may be getting to be a medium of mediocrity, but there are still five or six wonderful hours a week. That's all I need. With more, I'd become a blithering idiot." Concluded Susskind, addressing the disgruntled Cadillacs: "You seem to be wallowing in self-abnegation ... As opposed to making Olympian comments, why don't you-the men with a creative mark to etch-do something about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Disgruntled Cadillacs | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

After reading your whitewashing of Ike, I want to cancel my subscription. When I subscribe to a magazine, I want news-not love notes about that golf-playing idiot in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

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