Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have always looked forward to reading your magazine to learn the scientific, artistic, factual and even gossipy news of our country and abroad. If I wanted tripe or sexual baloney, I would read this idiot's Playboy...
...delighted partisan audiences with his swinging attacks on Johnson. The Administration's domestic programs, he said, resembled a "20-mule team harnessed at night by a blind, one-armed idiot." There was the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt, the Fair Deal of Harry Truman, and now the "ordeal" of Lyndon Johnson. He also produced a passable caption for a future Romney administration. "A new generation of progress," he said, "is forming up on the horizon." As usual, Romney laced his talk with moral homilies, and even his discussion of public responsibility carried a churchly ring. He told an Elks...
With that one blow the barricades fell, and the avant-garde came storming through. Robert Downey's Chafed Elbows, the shaggy-surreal saga of a Village idiot who hopes to get rich quick by persuading female midgets to use contact lenses as contraceptives, opened in a Lower East Side cin bin that was soon crammed by the cab trade from uptown. And Shirley Clarke's Jason, a harrowing 120-minute interview with a black male prostitute, was offered a midtown opening as a hard-eyed cautionary tale and a surefire succes de scandale...
...Teddy bear. At night he goes back to the abandoned factory where a gang of derelicts chases him through the cellars with a terrible silent intensity. As interpreted with a marvelous simplicity by Taylor Mead, a Beat poet, the hero is part Chaplin and part Myshkin -a holy idiot, unaccommodated...
...Died. Lee Simonson, 78, theatrical-set designer, who pioneered a new kind of functional set design, which by substituting style and simplicity for useless clutter and opulence sought to frame the mood of a play without smothering it, thereby enhancing hundreds of productions (Liliom, Idiot's Delight), mostly for the Theatre Guild, of which he was a founder in 1919; of a heart attack; in Yonkers, New York...