Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the integrationist bus stopped in Montgomery last week, there was no one to stop the senselessness. An idiot, club-swinging mob of about 100 surged toward the riders. Trying to save a Negro girl from serious injury, John Seigenthaler got clouted from behind...
Cruelty & Indifference. Joan Williams, 32, now lives in Connecticut, but she remembers her small-town Southern youth with remarkable precision. The Morning and the Evening is a carefully controlled yarn, which has as its hero the village idiot of a small Mississippi town. What seems at first like another Southern Gothic construction, with heartstrings, quickly becomes something more important. No near-helpless, mute man of 40 can arouse an emotion much stronger than pity, but the reactions of neighbors to his helplessness and his own vulnerability to cruelty can tell a great deal about man's eternal debt...
...minutes. Inevitably, a great many scenes suffered: the garden scene, with its stately polonaise, now consisted of a hurried procession of guests who appeared to be on their way to a cookout. The television camera could not encompass the crowd effects that are so important to Boris; and the Idiot at opera's end had only a thicket of birch .trees, rather than a forest, in which to sing his prophetic curtain song...
...instruct 39 inept students, murdering each one when the effort failed, murders No. 40 onstage. In The Chairs an aged couple takes leave of the world through a window, leaving behind an Orator appointed to deliver their final message of wisdom for mankind; but the Orator is an inarticulate idiot...
...intelligent decisions and relevant expertise are not going to be forthcoming unless control is removed from the workings of democracy on the idiot level. At the moment, schools are the favorite theatre for self-important boobs who want to do something, not only because they keep seeing defects in their children's education, but also because those in control are so very accessible...