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...handed down, Frederick John Kasper found his cause, headed into the Southland to stir the mob. Ironically, Kasper did not get a rousing reception from most of his fellow segregationists, once they learned of his pedigree. Spat one avid white supremacist: "He's an interloper, an emotional idiot with a martyr complex and a power complex who is neurotically avid for publicity. His actions make him a double agent. He might as well be working for the other side...
...sense the Machiavellianism where it belongs--inside Iago's mind--even when he is just lurking silently on the sidelines. It would be easier to externalize his deviltry entirely, but it would be wrong. To the personages of the drama, Iago must seem honest; otherwise Othello becomes a stupid idiot (which he is not), to say nothing of Iago's own wife, Emilia, who only at the very end learns the true nature of her spouse. Drake is right to look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under...
...tossed a match into the barn and sure started a fire." Treasury Secretary Humphrey's warning that high Government spending would in the long run bring on a depression "that will curl your hair" caused hair to stand on end all over the U.S. Editorial writers cried of "idiot spending," and budget figures rolled sonorously across Chamber of Commerce luncheon tables from coast to coast. Congressional mail pouches swelled; New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives totted up 2,155 budget-cutting letters and postcards last month. Talk about the cost of Government even reached Broadway...
...losing a TV job (to Faye Emerson) because she showed up drunk for the first show, Diana muses with a terribly revealing naivete: "For months, everywhere I looked, stories and interviews and photographs of Faye Emerson leaped out at me. Her name was like a dagger. You fool, you idiot! It could have been you on the cover of Look, of Cosmopolitan . . . It could have been...
...Center in Hiroshima, Japan (pop. 360,000), the sort of incident he had dreaded took place. One day his seven-year-old daughter delivered a gift of some stationery to an elementary school. A group of boys suddenly surrounded her. Screaming "American, your nose is too high. Baka! [stupid idiot]. You dropped the atomic bomb on us," they threatened to beat her with sticks. Though the boys never carried out this 1954 threat, the incident was proof enough that Fazl Fotouhi had a most delicate educational task ahead...