Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deformities and to present him to a conference of physicians as "the most perverted and degraded form of a human being" he has ever seen. Because Merrick will only grunt and growl, Treves takes him for an imbecile: "For his own sake, I pray to God he's an idiot." But the doctor soon discovers that his specimen is not only intelligent, but well-read and inquisitive, a sensitive young man painfully aware of his condition. Refusing to return him to his sideshow master, Treves sets out to educate the incurable Elephant Man, to make him an example of Victorian...
...Lectures on Literature comes as close as one could hope for. Elegantly edited by Fredson Bowers, handsomely printed in an oversized format, it includes discussions of seven classic European and English novels and is extensively illustrated with Nabokov's drawings, diagrams, maps, floor plans and marginal annotations ("Idiot!" he scrawled typically next to one of the many mistranslations that outraged...
...attitudes that 9 to 5 is striving to erase, Snyder says that businessmen and students often walk into offices with only the secretary present and ask her, "Isn't anyone here today?" "It's being treated like you don't have a brain and the work you do is idiot work--when it takes some skill to do it--when, in fact, office workers are the backbone of business in Boston and elsewhere...
...glaring urban background, Jackson Browne seems to have exchanged "the bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge." Hold Out is here in part tostatethat "the poet laureate of California rock" has made that trade and is living up to his promise to "be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender," and in part to entreat Browne's long-time idol, the mythical pure-of-heart to keep holding out against the compromises Browne himself has made. Both statement and plea are delivered with the trademark wry sincerity that has for five previous albums saved Browne...
...next evening some 35 police officers were on hand, including detectives in tuxedos, as the Berlin company performed Panov's staging of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. It is a ballet of terror and violence, in which the beautiful Natasya is murdered by her thwarted lover, Rogozhin. As his rival, Prince Myshkin, performed the final scene, a madman's vision of the world consumed by fire, the audience broke into wild applause...