Word: idiotically
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...bully. He threw coffee in Publisher Horace Liveright's face and once challenged Sinclair Lewis to a duel. Maudlin music made him teary and flattery made him fatuous. He was a skinflint who haggled over cab fares, a spendthrift who swaggered in custom suits. He was a political idiot who backed the Nazis and the Communists at the same time. Furtive and suspicious, he suffered psychotic episodes and occasionally flirted with suicide. He tried heroin and hashish. For years, he once confessed, he was a compulsive masturbator. He wrote love letters in baby talk, named his women like horses...
...brought you 2,500 letters. Chances are that you will receive more than that from Alabama alone about the March 19th issue-all critical. If they didn't have at least that many ignorant people down there, they would kick Wallace off his throne within 24 hours. Some idiot may assassinate Dr. King before this fight is over, but that will detract nothing from his accomplishments. They shot Gandhi, Lincoln and Kennedy, but monuments are erected to their memories. They had clubs and bullwhips in Christ's day but they didn't have rednecks and Ku Klux...
...American comic-strip writers, who have long taken for granted that they are part of the American subculture. Said Al Capp: "At home, nobody has ever asked me for an autograph for himself. It's always for a demented brother who reads my junk, or his idiot nephew. Writers don't take you seriously because you draw. Artists don't take you seriously because you write. Now we come to Europe to find out that it's deep stuff, and if I stay around these guys much longer, I might begin to believe...
Bradley later summarized a letter he has received from a Harvard freshman answering the accusation. "He was saying that I was an idiot" explained Bradley. "Many people write that, but he wrote it in big words...
...triumphant imitation. The characters are as inevitable as those in great myths or TV wrestling matches. Villain Henry Warren is a pallidly ambitious Flem Snopes type who manages a mammoth truck-farming plantation. His wife Julie-Ann is a neurotic Southern aristocrat. They have (what else?) an idiot child. Hero Reeve Scott is a young Negro just returned from the Army, determined to fight for his rights and not let Henry Warren steal his patch of land away from him. Reeve's mother is (what else?) the heroic matriarch who long ago was Miss Julie-Ann's black...