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...Poet Konstantin Boga-tyryov, the Russian translator of Rainer Maria Rilke who had protested against Soviet civil rights violations. While the scholar was dying of a fractured skull in the hospital, Amalrik went on, KGB agents ordered the doctors to "fix him so he will come out an idiot," then threatened the physicians when they refused to comply with their order. Still, Amalrik expressed hope that he could continue to struggle against repression. "My leaving the Soviet Union is not exactly a victory," he said. "I would call it a tactical retreat; I have retreated in order to strike back...
...week's end Blue, Fingers and Rudi belonged back in Oakland's green and Finley was out $3.5 million of the long green. He also was heading straight for court as were the Yankees. Finley's characterization of Kuhn: "He sounds like the village idiot...
...given the abstruse and archaic state of medicine in France before the Revolution, Itard achieved a minor miracle in teaching Victor at all. The foremost doctors of the day were quick to declare Victor a congenital idiot and asked to banks him to the inhuman, rat-infested cubicles which served as the asylums of Paris. "He's not deaf and dumb because he was left in the forest, he was left in the forest because he was deaf and dumb," they said, and one rumor had Victor the illegitimate son of a provincial notaire who cast him into the woods...
...Idiot (Russian version) at 5:45 and 9:30; The Lower Depths (Gorky...
...Millet, art is slavish copying of nature. He lights his lantern and goes looking for cretins. . .imagine a monster with no skull, the eye extinguished by an idiot's squint, straddling in the middle of a field like a scarecrow. No spark of intelligence humanizes this resting brute. Has he been working or murdering...