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Word: idiot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fragments of a Fabulous World | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Joshua L. Dunaief and John Rosenthal, S | Title: CUE Discusses Changes In Course Guide Structure | 12/13/1984 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: State of the Arts | 10/12/1984 | See Source »

...favor the pro-life candidate was if he or she were "a babbling idiot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pressing the Abortion Issue | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mozart's Greatest Hit | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

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