Word: idiotically
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...Fille's plot is as wispy as a ruffled tutu: Lise, daughter of a prosperous farmer, falls in love with a strapping lad named Colas, but is opposed by her mother, who wants her to marry Alain, idiot son of a wealthy vineyard owner. Lovers outwit mother, amor vincit omnia, curtain. The original score was probably written by an unknown member of the Bordeaux Grand Theater Orchestra, was later revised by Ferdinand Herold, chorus master of the Paris Opera, who included such pirated tidbits as the overture to Barber of Seville, As for the choreography-originally by Jean Bercher...
...questioned, "Is this not rash?" Directly across this observation some coarse hand had written, "Read the text, IDIOT...
...before the German Supreme Court in Leipzig, one of the key witnesses was Prussia's Minister President Hermann Göring (later Hitler's portly air marshal), who testified that the Reichstag fire resulted from a well-planned Communist conspiracy. Van der Lubbe, who acted like an idiot during the trial. was sentenced to death and executed. But Bulgarian Communist Codefendant Georgi Dimitrov-later to become Communist boss of Bulgaria and then fall from Stalin's favor for Titoism-and three other prominent Communists had to be freed for lack of evidence...
...announcing to startled householders that "I am the sole active member of the ancient brotherhood of the troubadours." Back in Springfield, townspeople snickered; later he was to say, "People thought I fought for fame, but I only fought my way through from being the town fool and the family idiot.'' It was a long fight; Lindsay was 33 when Harriet Monroe printed General Booth (with its parenthetical instructions for bass drum, banjo and flute accompaniment) in her Poetry Magazine...
...movie reaches toward distinction in the performances of Ethel Waters as Dilsey and Jack Burden as the idiot. The stoic, yet feeling portrayal of the colored matriarch is entirely right in terms of the novel. Burden's Benjy is different from the novel's, of necessity. But he brings dignity to the role, and a face which, in one unchanging expression, somehow conveys confusion and understanding, love and anger, and an enormous sensitivity...