Word: nitwit
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...Yipsol Mind. Outside his family, Reuther has no intimates and few friends. Glowering John L. Lewis, the founder of the C.I.O., is one of the few labor leaders who have publicly expressed themselves on the subject of Walter Reuther. He referred to him as a "pseudo-intellectual nitwit." Labor leaders generally dislike his metallic personal qualities-the iron will, the tinny personality, the brass nerve. They distrust his power and his policies...
...have won it enthusiastic listeners in four years as a top-rated radio show, Miss Brooks presents Schoolteacher Eve Arden in hot pursuit of a biologist who appears more interested in frogs than in girls. Also on hand for laughs: a hot-tempered principal, an absent-minded landlady, two nitwit teenagers...
...chin-up, clear-eyed gallantry that has her doctor blubbering. When Walter Pidgeon, her remarkably obtuse husband, finally catches on, he too is reduced to choked-up admiration. Meanwhile, Greer gently discourages a U.S. colonel (John Hodiak) who is in love with her, straightens out the affairs of her nitwit daughter (Cathy O'Donnell), and sets right the tangled marriage of a British general (Leo Genn). The story, which has a promising future as a radio soap opera, is filmed through a heavy meringue of sentiment...
...Here are people who are close to glamorous characters, whose sole business is exploiting them. So they come up with either dull trade items of bookings, bald raves or patent fakes tying up their clients with imaginary romances. They issue pusillanimous and preposterous puns and they 'credit' nitwit observations on international affairs to hams who don't know Europe is across the Atlantic. They have studios 'negotiating' deals for their employers which could never eventuate. Why they think I will believe such palpable tripe, let alone pass it on to millions...
...comedy. Not content to have Francis show up his military superiors, Author-Scripter Stern lets the mule go on haranguing them as well. But in its best scenes, the picture kicks up enough fun to numb a tolerant moviegoer to its shortcomings. Actor O'Connor makes an amiable nitwit, and Francis (voice by horse opera's Chill Wills) is a tribute to the patience and technical skill of moviemaking...