Word: idiotically
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...infects the actors with a louder evil. Anyway the only ones who can carry off the bourgeois ambivalence are those with their own natural appeal, like John Carito's Journeyman. The others sometimes blow too-sinister cigar smoke, and take over the simpler, symbolic function of the leering village idiot...
Anna Christie with Greta Garbo at 8 p.m. and the Russian film of Dostoevsky's The Idiot at 10, Friday and Saturday, March...
...apprenticeship and the time, admittedly slight, that he spends away from work. But throughout, Bruck catches the same animating qualities that the artist David Levine did in his famous caricature of Stone lifting up the Capitol Dome-what Stone himself calls "that combination of maniacal zest and idiot zeal...
...with mentation. These are to a limited extent of a genetic nature (metabolic errors) and to a larger extent due to external influences which have operated upon the embryo or the growing child. (This population with extremely low I.Q.s includes children of highly intelligent parents; indeed, a so-called idiot or imbecile comes usually from intelligent parents.) The higher I.Q.s (55-70) among the mentally retarded are more often due to genetic factors. However, no one has ever found a racial pattern in the group of intellectual inadequates. My studies (funded by the National Institute of Health) have provided evidence...
Like the stock market, the land market operates largely on the "one more idiot" theory. According to this, an investor may know that he is paying far too much for land, but the purchase is justified because there will always be "one more idiot" to buy it from him at an even higher price...