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...hidden collection of pornographic slides and projects a few lubricious scenes on the fireplace wall. Poor Dave, the man of "exquisite sensibilities," breaks training altogether by bedding down with a shapeless lump of sensuality from the brassiere factory and later marrying her. Finally, his wife's berserk first husband plants a bullet in his brain. After what Dave has been through, this is arguably a happy ending. Besides, Novelist Jones has Dave will his manuscript to his peerless editor Gwen, and everyone knows that getting published is what really counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life Is a Four-Letter Word | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Angry with his about-to-be-married 18-year-old daughter and vexed at Roman Catholic Church authorities who refused to block the ceremony, Dr. Joseph A. Porcello went quietly berserk. Near his home in Pleasantville, N.Y., a town of seemly zoning restrictions and well-barbered lawns, the obstetrician found four rocks stowed them in his medical bag. Then he headed grimly for Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unreasonable Parents | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...early music-En Saga, Finlandia and other tone poems-is filled with striding themes, echoes of folk tunes, broadly brooding melodies that reminded listeners of the good Finnish earth and established Sibelius as the composer of unfettered nature. With his occasional Nordic rages, he sounded like Brahms gone berserk, but he was also capable of a strongly appealing lyricism. His symphonies, with their acrid dissonances, their brassy shouts and cool, lonely instrumentation, seemed even closer to the stark northern land. Although Sibelius testily denied the implication that he wrote music merely descriptive of nature, he would say: "The seasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Woodsman | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...credit to the excellent acting of the principals that the film can almost make one believe for a moment that being the son of a whore is enough dramatic justification for a berserk attempt to envelop all that evil has to offer. After a while the surfeit of violence and shock destroy even the dramatic incipient in them and become almost humorous...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: The Snow Was Black | 5/9/1957 | See Source »

...called up to the Red Sox. It was the big test. Could he pass it? The dread of failing-failing to live up to his father's demands-threw him into a manic panic. One day in midseason, as the picture tells the story, Jim Piersall went berserk on the ball field and woke up in a straitjacket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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