Word: idiotically
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...found himself troubled about Aquarius' novels, however. What visions of damnation, for instance, smoked in Aquarius' head when in The Deer Park he had Marion the pimp say, "No one ever loved anyone except for the rare bird, and the rare bird loved an idea or an idiot child." Could it be that Aquarius, the nice Jewish boy from Long Branch, N.J., and Brooklyn, N.Y., the kid who loved model airplanes and went to Harvard to study aeronautical engineering-could it be that the youth committed to the ideals of democratic socialism and the young man who fought...
...prayerful band started its cursing crusade only after "nights of soul-searching" convinced its members that Japan's notoriously lax antipollution laws needed divine guidance. At first, the group was apprehensive. "I felt like an idiot, an impossible Buddhist Quixote in this age of technology," recalls Masaki Umehara. The public felt differently. To many Japanese, the picture of a solitary band of Buddhists silhouetted against smoke-belching factories suggested latter-day samurai...
...sociological perspective be coupled with a medical approach to the problem. Not coincidentally, Dr. Mark is an associate professor of Surgery at the Medical School while Dr. Irven is an associate professor of Psychiatry. Their book reflects this schizoid nature-Lorenz, DeVore, Aristotle, and even Dostoevski's The Idiot are listed as references right along with scores of neurology medical research papers...
...every potentially significant moment in the film -are drowned by the roar of the surf, the creak of windblown trees, the ta-pocketa-pocketa of a British power generator, and an overpowering score. Perhaps the rudest device of all is the misuse of John Mills as the village idiot who sees all and knows all, but can tell nothing. Like the film itself, it is scarcely worthy of Lean's demonstrated talent...
...systematic effort to develop a profile. In general, says a U.S. Government specialist, the cell member may fall into any of several categories: "A few are adventurers, in the underground for the hell of it. A few are 'crazies.' And there are some idealists of the Marxist 'useful idiot' type." More broadly, the guerrillas can range from outright criminals to blue-collar workers, from romantic, fanatic children of the elite to men of considerable intellect and courage...