Word: idiotic
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Whatever the logic of it, it makes a decidedly good show. Major Barbara is full of marvelous ideological eye-foolers and glittering intellectual pinwheels and dialectical tugs of war. Beyond that, Shaw has mingled bright drawing-room chatter with sharp cockney unpleasantries, thrown in here an amusing upper-clawss idiot, there a bellowing lower-class bully...
...never got a scoop in my life. They never seemed to me to have any sense. Most scoops were bad stories. And they were always exaggerated and played up in an idiot manner...
Aaron's interpretation of the broadcast as having humor is correct, but the script's humor is a very subtle, Wellesian sneer. In the original, the farmer on whose field the first rocket landed was slow and countrived, but in Aaron's he is more of the village idiot...
...remainder of the action takes poor Susannah on a descending spiral through rejection by the townsfolk, false betrayal by the local idiot, seduction by the evan gelist himself, humiliation by the congre gation, and the eventual murder (by her brother) of her seducer. The grim tale ends on an ambiguous note with Susannah laughing hysterically...
Other such devices include the spectrum rally, which uses different colors to indicate right and left turns; the idiot's delight rally, which requires the driver to remove all his sparkplugs (or something similar), carry them around the car, and then replace them; the scoreboard rally, which demands a count of every supermarket, etc. on the right and every florist shop, etc. on the left; and the landmark rally, which requires a right (left) turn at every mail box or gas station, or whatever...