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...idea that The Machine is pure evil, and should be destroyed. (This idea was first expressed by a village idiot, Ned Ludd, who stalked around Nottingham, England, in the late 18th Century, smashing stocking frames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Dr. Crankley's Children | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...near the Trocadero told a reporter that her hat had cost 28,000 francs ($235) at Lanvin's. She sat, vibrating with anger, until a speaker mentioned Schuman's Finance Minister René Mayer, whereupon she stood up, brandished her fist, and shrieked: "That man is an idiot! Let's have some action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 800,000 Iron Curtains | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Hollywood, ransacking the lives of composers for plot material, has never got around to Modeste Petrovich Musorgsky. The composer of Boris Godunov suffered no searing romances, died a quaking alcoholic at 42; during most of his life he was regarded, with loving condescension, as little more than a talented idiot, even by the other four of the Russian Five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downhill to Fame | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Readers of The Musorgsky Reader will find him no idiot, but a man with the soul of a child. His friends patronized him, but he became the greatest of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downhill to Fame | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...white and yellow, there showed occasionally a horse's teeth or glaring eyes, or a frostbitten or port-nipped military face, conjured up out of the gloom and darkness, like a materialization at a seance. . . . Men shouted, sergeants commanded; bugles every now and then indulged in a brazen, idiot bray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Fruit Was Ripe ... | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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