Word: idiote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best summary I've heard of Karl Barth's theology: "God is everything, man is nothing, and you're an idiot...
...before it hit the moon. The scientists got no television pictures of the moon as planned; they could count no ' meteorites nor could their carefully packed moonquake meter land in working order. Discouraged, one National Aeronautics and Space Administration official lamented: "All we've got is an idiot with a radio signal." But idiot or not, for the first time, the U.S. had actually hit the moon with a missile-a missile that destroyed itself and its cargo in a 6,000-m.p.h. impact...
...interpreted with earthy humor and shining grace by Bokuzen Hidari, is the vortical figure in the film. The other characters turn to him as men turn instinctively to a light in darkness. He is a holy idiot, a saint who is wanted by the police. He looks like a lamb, he looks like a dragon. Unhuman understanding blazes in his eyes-or is it merely the firelight reflected? Prophetic wisdom flames from his mouth-or is he simply playing the oracle? "Lies are not always evil, nor is the truth always good . . . Blessed are those who believe in something, even...
...Theodore Roethke, 54, a florist's son from Michigan, who currently teaches English at the University of Washington, is perhaps the most richly gifted and certainly the most exasperating of the three. In much of his poetry he writes like a self-made idiot, a regressive pioneer who chooses to explore the primary ground of being. The ground is often boggy ("Bring me a finger. The dirt's lonesome for grass...
...several scenes, bottles of Hennessey's three-star appear as props; this should come as no surprise, for the Hollywood (sans slickness) quality of The Idiot is evidently its most salient feature. The Soviets have imitated American bombs in the past; hopefully The Idiot will prove the last to be dropped on Cambridge...