Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What happened to Dostoevsky's four part masterpiece shouldn't happen to an idiot. First Director Ivan Pyriev and his collaborators at Mosfilm Studios decided to cut the last three-fourths of the novel. Next they relieved Prince Myshkin of his epilepsy, replacing it with a halo. To complete the transformation they added an exaggeratedly romantic, musical score, and put grease on the actors' faces (to make them look involved), and used a color technique that turned flesh into the inside of an orange peel...
...cock and bull story," but Red China's official newspaper, People's Daily, promptly set the record straight. The Communist bloc would never stop "supporting the revolutionary struggles of the oppressed nations and people," said People's Daily, and anyone who thinks otherwise is living "an idiot's daydream...
...cold blood, no government can, no government will, start a nuclear war with an equally great power. Only a moral idiot would press the button. The poor dears among us who say that they have had enough and now let us drop the bomb have no idea what they are talking about. Nevertheless, though a nuclear war would be lunacy, and is unlikely, it is an ever-present possibility. There is a line of intolerable provocation beyond which the reactions are uncontrollable. The governments must know where that line is and they must stay well back of it. This being...
...once again get down to business without the amount of scorn we would have encountered before Khrushchev's announced intention of resuming nuclear weapons testing. Anyone who actually believed that he ever stopped nuclear testing, and I say this to all who did, is an idiot...
...days, no New England town was complete without its village idiot, but now there are the summer theater managers. How many times, after all, can a man watch Springtime for Henry in his own barn? But last week one impresario decided that he was not the only unbalanced character in town. After 29 years at Maine's Kennebunkport Playhouse, Robert C. Currier took an ad in the local paper, put his famous theater up for sale, and explained why. "I have felt for some time," he said, "that a person must have an examination proving he's half...