Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...death choices. If this stark story suggests the influence of Hemingway, the next one announces the sway of William Faulkner. Nabo: The Black Man Who Made the Angels Wait (1951) contains a wealthy estate, a black stableboy who has been kicked in the head by a horse, a drooling idiot child and a rhetorical, parenthesis-choked concluding sentence 375 words long...
...know if you're a bumbling idiot on the lecture podium unless you've read the questionnaires," said Woollacott, adding "I don't think I would allow my course to be evaluated if I couldn't see each of my students' responses to the questionnaires...
This view has been promoted through such works as the play and film "Amadeus," according to Kirchner, which portrays the composer Mozart as "an idiot with a divine gift...
...favor the pro-life candidate was if he or she were "a babbling idiot...
...earless painters, mad scientists all live inside the quarantine of their own superiority, distanced by their difference from the world they illuminate and help-recreate. To 19th century romantics the genius was a superman; to most of us today he may seem both more and less than human, an idiot savant, a freak of nature...