Word: simpleton
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...long interval between is filled with an uninspired but dogged probing of the personalities involved. Kantor's wordy persistence is partially rewarded. Joan Lorring emerges as an earnest simpleton who so yearns for freedom that she risks her life in return for a brief holiday from jail. Lloyd Bridges painfully grows in stature from a conniving cop to a man ready to count his world well lost for love. But, as often happens in the theater, it is Villain Gregory with his unrepentant, double-dealing philosophy who comes most alive on the stage: the only unconvincing note...
...brilliant young Frenchman, Guy de Passy. John is puzzled by the fellow, Robert not. "It is this manner of the great world about him that astonishes and charms you," he says to John. "I think he rates us lowly . . . myself discontented and half a monk; you a staunch simpleton . . . I would say he is one of those people who may perish of their own cleverness...
...Public Library, you would have to withdraw from it the Boston Post itself because it quotes what Stalin has said on various occasions . . . The oversimplified position that you can just throw out all Communist propaganda by a wave of the hand ... is not a simple solution. It is a simpleton's solution...
...Author Arnold Schulman's vivid re-creation of an off-Broadway gin mill, a place alive with the yelps of syncopation, and feverish with the cynical wisecracks of men afraid they may have missed the last boat to Success. The story was the familiar one of the simpleton who, mistaking tolerance for affection and pity for love, belatedly learns the world's true opinion of him. It ended with the moron sprawled beaten and blubbering on a city street, abandoned by the girl who had been momentarily kind, and discarded by his only friend, the embittered musician...
...regimes (he refused two Soviet invitations to return to Russia). But the most touching personal history in his book is that of the Prince of Oldenburg, a man too saintly and naive to realize this. "Oh, what nice, charming people you all are!" cried the good old simpleton after spending an evening chatting with revolutionaries. "And what a pity that Kolya never spent an evening like this! Everything, everything would have been different if you and he had come to know each other...