Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before the German Supreme Court in Leipzig, one of the key witnesses was Prussia's Minister President Hermann Göring (later Hitler's portly air marshal), who testified that the Reichstag fire resulted from a well-planned Communist conspiracy. Van der Lubbe, who acted like an idiot during the trial. was sentenced to death and executed. But Bulgarian Communist Codefendant Georgi Dimitrov-later to become Communist boss of Bulgaria and then fall from Stalin's favor for Titoism-and three other prominent Communists had to be freed for lack of evidence...
...announcing to startled householders that "I am the sole active member of the ancient brotherhood of the troubadours." Back in Springfield, townspeople snickered; later he was to say, "People thought I fought for fame, but I only fought my way through from being the town fool and the family idiot.'' It was a long fight; Lindsay was 33 when Harriet Monroe printed General Booth (with its parenthetical instructions for bass drum, banjo and flute accompaniment) in her Poetry Magazine...
They said it couldn't be done. They said you could never make a movie out of The Sound and the Fury. Too complex. Too confusing. Whole thing takes place in some blithering idiot's mind. They said it could never be made into a movie...
...movie reaches toward distinction in the performances of Ethel Waters as Dilsey and Jack Burden as the idiot. The stoic, yet feeling portrayal of the colored matriarch is entirely right in terms of the novel. Burden's Benjy is different from the novel's, of necessity. But he brings dignity to the role, and a face which, in one unchanging expression, somehow conveys confusion and understanding, love and anger, and an enormous sensitivity...
...underdog (e.g., juvenile delinquents), riled Sweden's neutralist government by urging membership in NATO, gibed at the institution of monarchy. "The monarchy," says Nycop, "is undemocratic. I'm all for King Gustaf. He's a remarkably good executive. But the next one could be an idiot...