Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tragedy considerably more effective than "King Haber", though much cruder and more exaggerated. "The Patriot", familiar to movie fans as one of Emil Jannings best pictures, stands out as the most skillfully handled and the most appealing of the three stories. The gradual development of the conspiracy against the mad Czar Paul, the struggles of Count Pahlen against external opposition and against his self-accusations of ungratefulness, are told with careful objectivity, yet with a much finer dramatic sense than appeared in "King Haber". "The Patriot" is the only story in the volume that is adequately translated; the English...
...chanique had a frosty reception. Critics hooted and Composer Antheil returned immediately to the land which he said understood him better. Yet even Europeans failed him last week at the premiere in Frankfort of his opera Transatlantic or The People's Choice. The scene is a hectic, cocktail-mad Manhattan; the hero a politician who beats his way up from the ranks to the U. S. presidency and loses the woman he loves. Despite Antheil's claim that he is deeply patriotic ("in the Walt Whitman way"), that Transatlantic is an idealistic, not a satiric opera, it seemed...
...sweet and clean the name of Curley in the mind of the general public. Besides, elections are far away. Perhaps he feels that Boston supporters will look with approval on the stern chastisement of smart young Harvard fellers. And then, there is the remote possibility that the Mayor is mad...
...Tomasson issued a public statement that the "Mussolini of Iceland," famed Herra Jónas Jónsson, boss politician, Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastics, is a lunatic, suggested that if his skill and that of his associates is not sufficient to diagnose Herra Jónsson as mad, then by all means let the world's foremost psychiatric authorities be summoned to Reykjavik...
...point of fact Herra Jónsson is sufficiently eccentric, in a masterful driving sort of way, to have excited the same sort of hushed questions which are asked about Signor Benito Mussolini. To be great and to be mad are merely two different ways of being unusual...