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Boob tube, idiot box, or whatever else people call it, television is responsible for the bacon David Brinkley, 43, brings home, and the ham-on-wry commentator felt moved to pay homage to its glories. But what to say? "Television," he finally advised some University of North Carolina students, "is the only thing in the world that is punctual." People, planes and trains are late, he continued thoughtfully, but TV is on time. "It may be lousy, but it's on time...
...going to upstage me." And right he was. Rising at a dinner of Chicago's Notre Dame Club to accept their "Woman of the Year" award, Dolores Hope introduced her husband of 30 years: "Well, I've either got to use Bob's idiot cards or give you the idiot himself. Bob, you're on." The comic valiantly flip-quipped his way through 30 minutes (the one time he was angry with his wife: "The morning I came downstairs and found her sitting in my spotlight"), but the night belonged to Dolores. Said a telegram...
...book is the story of an education. Runty 19-year-old Angelo has an idiot sister, a slatternly mother, a dreary job as a druggist's assistant, and no hopes. He is intelligent, and he stakes everything on reason. Runty, it seems, can stand the whole crummy mess so long as he can remain aloof from the environment he despises and, ultimately, from himself...
...almost bestial beings that infest Central Park. And Miller's language rises at times to impressive prose poetry: "The wish to kill is never killed, but with some gift of courage one may look into its face when it appears and with a stroke of love--as to an idiot in the house--forgive...
...live together and how to mourn. Gleich is a nut too, but different from the Shemanskys: fortified with faith in ritual and his own deep warmth, Gleich temporarily stuns the Shemanskys into their tradition: to mourn, to rend their clothes, to talk compassionately of the dead idiot child. The Shemanskys, however, soon evict Gleich (who had moved in with Mrs. Charpolsky) and, as Ma dictates, do not mourn for Zadie (the Shemansky grandfather and financial supporter who died the next week). Zadie lived downstairs too, but nobody visited...