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...another character and halts all action for a couple of chapters while she tells how he achieved his present wretchedness. The measure of how feeble are the author's efforts is that the major shockers concern a servant girl who becomes pregnant, a woman who bears a Mongolian idiot, and a young man who will not admit that he is a homosexual. Novelist Metalious shows herself to be a woman of taste in telling this last episode; her custom is to describe heterosexual claspings in considerable detail, but after the smoldering line, "Come here, David," the young invert...
...sharpest manifestation, the virus sets off an encephalitis (brain inflammation) so severe that it may cause death -or, worse, such sweeping damage that the victim survives only as an idiot or at the level of a vegetable. How many such cases there are is not known...
After the last mile of speeches had finally paid out through the rostrum's idiot box, ratings indicated that nearly twice as many people had watched NBC as CBS, with ABC far out of the running. CBS, on the defensive in its long-held top position in TV news, had at least one slim consolation: it scored an exclusive interview with the expectant Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy on a Cape Cod lawn 3,000 miles from the gavel...
...Idiot (Mosfilm; 20th Century-Fox) is the sixth of seven Russian films to be sent to the U.S. under the terms of last year's film-exchange agreement (the U.S.S.R. got ten U.S. films, including Marty and Roman Holiday}. It is difficult to see why it was exported. It may be that Russians genuinely admire that style of mummery in which the white of an actor's eye is always visible, while the pupil occasionally rolls out of sight. At any rate, Dostoevsky's amorphous novel of a young prince whose saintly behavior merely confuses...
Johnson, a one-legged veteran of World War II now on desk duty, loved David as much as he did his older sons. But David, with oblique eyes and clubbed fingers, was a mongoloid-born an idiot (thanks to some quirk of nature not yet understood). When Johnson pressed him, Dr. Berridge said David had little chance of learning anything more difficult than feeding himself and using the toilet, no chance of ever earning a living. Johnson wondered aloud, in his agony, what would happen to David when he and his wife were gone. What would this incubus...