Word: idiotically
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...days, no New England town was complete without its village idiot, but now there are the summer theater managers. How many times, after all, can a man watch Springtime for Henry in his own barn? But last week one impresario decided that he was not the only unbalanced character in town. After 29 years at Maine's Kennebunkport Playhouse, Robert C. Currier took an ad in the local paper, put his famous theater up for sale, and explained why. "I have felt for some time," he said, "that a person must have an examination proving he's half...
...when the integrationist bus stopped in Montgomery last week, there was no one to stop the senselessness. An idiot, club-swinging mob of about 100 surged toward the riders. Trying to save a Negro girl from serious injury, John Seigenthaler got clouted from behind...
Cruelty & Indifference. Joan Williams, 32, now lives in Connecticut, but she remembers her small-town Southern youth with remarkable precision. The Morning and the Evening is a carefully controlled yarn, which has as its hero the village idiot of a small Mississippi town. What seems at first like another Southern Gothic construction, with heartstrings, quickly becomes something more important. No near-helpless, mute man of 40 can arouse an emotion much stronger than pity, but the reactions of neighbors to his helplessness and his own vulnerability to cruelty can tell a great deal about man's eternal debt...
...minutes. Inevitably, a great many scenes suffered: the garden scene, with its stately polonaise, now consisted of a hurried procession of guests who appeared to be on their way to a cookout. The television camera could not encompass the crowd effects that are so important to Boris; and the Idiot at opera's end had only a thicket of birch .trees, rather than a forest, in which to sing his prophetic curtain song...
...instruct 39 inept students, murdering each one when the effort failed, murders No. 40 onstage. In The Chairs an aged couple takes leave of the world through a window, leaving behind an Orator appointed to deliver their final message of wisdom for mankind; but the Orator is an inarticulate idiot...