Word: daftness
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...three old railroad ties, the show included some 125 paintings, photographs and wall splotches by Surrealists and fellow travelers of 19 nations, including the top ones: Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Man Ray. Many admirers of early Surrealism (such as Communist Louis Aragon) felt that the daft old horse had lost its kick. Notably absent: Giorgio de Chirico, now a noisy detractor of the movement, and Salvador Dali, unfrocked by orthodox Surrealists for being too frivolous and too commercial...
...Cruikshank and "Phiz" (Alec Guinness as Pocket is a Cruikshank in the flesh). Besides the principal actors, all of whom are excellent, the most notable (and equally good) are Bernard Miles-another living Cruikshank-as the blacksmith, Anthony Wager as the boy Pip, O. B. Clarence as a deaf-&-daft gaffer, and 17-year-old Jean Simmons as Estella in her teens...
...Carrolls (Warner) is a melodrama about a daft painter who subtly murders one wife after another. It was a Broadway hit chiefly because it provided a superb five-finger exercise for one of the trickiest actresses in the trade-Elisabeth Bergner. With the less versatile Barbara Stanwyck in the Bergner role, the story is merely thin and shabby...
Heinrich Himmler, who in life looked like a cross between a wasp and a pig, looked different in death. His death mask (see cut), taken near Lüneburg, Germany, after his suicide (by swallowing potassium cyanide), might have been mistaken for that of a daft and drunken Silenus...
Ivan & Spencer. In The Pursuit of Love, Author Mitford draws the political stings from most of these flesh & blood characters, remodels them into a charmed family circle that is as sparkling and daft as a fairy tale. In addition to a lovely heroine who does just what the title suggests, Pursuit stars one of contemporary fiction's best-loved character types-a father who combines the behavior of Ivan the Terrible with the heart of Spencer Tracy...