Word: simpleton
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Thereafter, coincidence takes control. "1 am Chance the gardener" is heard by the woman as "I am Chauncey Gardiner." When she brings him home for first aid and her husband asks Chance about his business, the simpleton's candid replies are interpreted as wise metaphors. When the President meets Chance while visiting the industrialist, he asks his opinion of the depressed stock market. "In a garden," says Chance, "growth has its season ... as long as the roots are not severed, all will be well." The President uses the line on TV and credits Chauncey Gardiner. The press assumes...
...disgruntled applicant called his parents to break the news. "How can they do this to me again?" his father asked. "To fill out those forms right you'd have to be a human computer or an absolute simpleton, and I'm neither...
Despite the safety and power of his position, Monk is slightly disturbed. He introduces into his description of the Waipori millennium the exercise books of a retarded girl named Milly Galbraith. Hers is the traditional tale told by the classic simpleton that unwittingly speaks the truth. As Milly wonders about her fate under the H.D.A., her naive narration and bad spelling redeem words from the neutrality of numbers...
...simple virtues: But perhaps Singer's masterpiece of short fiction, "Gimpel the Fool." provides the most tender display of his virtuoso talent. In a world which places a premium on wisdom, Singer's hero is the fool, the one who receives goat turds instead of sweets. The simpleton is the perfect symbol of alienated man-the butt of both divine and carthly humor...
...them music that raises their foolishness, vanity and ambition to the level of high tragedy. The music is extraordinarily singable; its effect is that of glowingly lyrical, somewhat familiar music that one has never heard before. Floyd's libretto transforms Steinbeck's tragic tale of a misunderstood simpleton into a threnody for lost men haunted by a dream-in this case, the dream of a farm of their own. Sings George...