Word: idiotically
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...first-class, if distressingly partisan reporter. Out of two assignments, the universities and the civil rights movement in the South, Von Hoffman wrote perceptive books and landed a job on the Post in 1966. "But there was always a question," he says, "of what to do with this idiot who seemed incapable of writing what fit into their definition of straight news...
...challenge his statements or actions in the classroom, they would stand in tense and painful silence. When the students came to him in a group to scream their demands for reform, however, they were magically transformed. "Then," says the professor, "they would make no bones about calling me an idiot...
...teacher told him that he was an idiot. His first employer told him that he was stupid. His mother-in-law told him that her daughter should have married a doctor. He lost his previous job. Nobody loves him. He doesn't know where he's going in life and wouldn't give you two cents for his future...
Lindsay was "cute" and he was "nice," yet no one would have liked to vote for him. It was hard to "Vote for New York" when everything seemed wrong, yet harder to vote for "that man from Staten Island who wants the war" or the village idiot with the Groucho Marx moustache...
...life and liberty in the pursuit of happiness. The real modern religion is "utopianism," and by that ism, Muggeridge means the universal creed of the modern world. No more "fatuous" slogan was ever devised than the pursuit of happiness asserted in the Declaration of Independence. "The darkness falls to idiot cries of progress achieved, of mankind having come of age," Muggeridge writes, "with vistas of technological bliss, and LSD trips over the hills and far away...