Word: idiote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Idiot." United Press International's Steve Van Meter, 20, agrees. After his tour as a 101st Airborne infantryman, he stayed on to take pictures. "A photographer has to be where the action is," he says. But for all the danger in the field, Van Meter found his scariest moments two weeks ago in the Tinh Hoi pagoda incident at Danang (TIME, June 3). "When you're out in the field, you always know there's your side and the other side. In Danang, I didn't have either side. The street stuff is ten times more...
...says. "Then when my son's turn comes, I turn around and do it worse. It was at the Waldorf. I had a $150 heart-shaped chopped-liver mold. The cook said, 'For $50 more I can make it pulsate.' I had more fun making an idiot of myself...
...TIME'S ten teachers, for example, court popularity, but none go farther in scorning it than Amherst's Arnold Arons, 49, who has created a demanding course in math and physics that all freshmen must take. He flunks more frosh than any other Amherst prof, barks "You are an idiot" at boys who were high school valedictorians. An arbitrary egotist, he has inspired student dart boards on which his photograph is the bull's-eye. Arons' scathing answer to his student critics is that "they create certain myths to rationalize their own inadequacies." He seems proud of some mementos from...
...floor. But you can't look out the window all day, and when you're not looking out the window you look at the three remaining walls in your cinder-block cubicle. More than one year in the Towers could scar a man for life and make a raving idiot of a claustrophobe...
What satire there is these days often satirizes the village idiot. Batman kids the comics-which kid the kids. The man from U.N.C.L.E. is, at its best, only taking off on James Bond, an acknowledged spoof on itself...