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There were some kind words for TV, too. Conceded Bob Arthur: "TV may be getting to be a medium of mediocrity, but there are still five or six wonderful hours a week. That's all I need. With more, I'd become a blithering idiot." Concluded Susskind, addressing the disgruntled Cadillacs: "You seem to be wallowing in self-abnegation ... As opposed to making Olympian comments, why don't you-the men with a creative mark to etch-do something about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Disgruntled Cadillacs | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

After reading your whitewashing of Ike, I want to cancel my subscription. When I subscribe to a magazine, I want news-not love notes about that golf-playing idiot in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...into the street into the traffic. This is particularly bad on Massachusetts Avenue near Plympton Street and further out towards Porter Square in the neighborhood of Sacremento Street. The "twenty feet from the island" regulation is not enforced and this again causes a severe and hazardous bottleneck. Finally, the idiot who opens his car door into traffic is a menace both to himself and to others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sullivan's Bikes | 10/31/1958 | See Source »

...undertaker was beside himself ("This is criminal!"), and his caller finally let him off the hook by switching to his natural voice: "Hi there. This is Jonathan Winters. Only kidding." Exploded the undertaker: "You were an idiot even in high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: If You're Not Sick . . . | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Next Time St. Vincent's. This, too, was something of an exaggeration. Jonathan Harshman Winters III, 32, longtime vagrant on radio, TV and in nightclubs, easily one of the funniest comedians in the business, is hardly an idiot, even though his humor springs out of and depends on idiocy. Last week Winters displayed his loony magic in Chicago's Black Orchid nightclub, racing hysterically through his varied roles-from a harassed father scared of his own kids, to the whole cast of a jail break complete with the rataplan of a Tommy gun, produced by his elastic larynx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: If You're Not Sick . . . | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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