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...Colgate's George Barton Cutten: Will it be rugged individualism or ragged collectivism? . . . We've taken better care of the idiot than we have of the genius. We have coddled the moron and starved the intelligent. Those with the divine spark we have neglected, while we've lavished money and training upon the pinheads. . . . Social legislation begs the unfit to become more unfit and cordially invites the fit to stop the struggle and vegetate...
...only readers who share the poet's indignation will sympathize with the deliberate lunatic ugliness of the poem on Van der Lubbe, the Dutch idiot executed by the Nazis for the Reichstag fire...
...royal "floozy," Miss Dietrich changes her moods and mannerisms almost as frequently as willowy-necked Sam Jaffe (cast as Grand Duke Peter, her idiot husband) changes his mind. Worst shot: Marlene Dietrich clattering up the palace steps on a white horse...
...Ciechanow police station and soon identified as Casimir Tocinski, 9. He was physically far more mature than his age. His mother, a halfwit, herds cows in summer, sleeps in the barns of friendly farmers during the winter. Her son was taken to Warsaw, where psychiatrists reported him "a complete idiot possessing nothing but animal instincts." In the back country farmers crossed themselves and knew that doctors could do nothing to help Casimir Tocinski...
Pacing up & down his hot little laboratory, black hair mussed, clothes wrinkled, eyes haggard, Dr. Cornish's hopes waxed & waned with the dog's vitality. "I am afraid," he said dejectedly toward the end of the twelfth day, "that the dog will be an idiot the rest of his days...