Word: mad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July 27 story, "A Mad Race": I am a humble citizen of this great city "which lies beneath its flies, swollen and unhealthy." Your country is supposed to be God's own country, free from flies, sacred cows and D.P.S from Pakistan, yet I love Calcutta with its dank tenements and narrow alleys. I am proud of Calcutta, as a New Yorker is proud of New York City. As yours is God's own country, you are supposed to be free from any mental disequilibrium. To keep the mind of His favorite children on an even keel...
...accept his ECA associations uncritically. He has denounced Europe's capitalists as "cartel-ridden," attacked Point Four as "a Mad Hatter's race" ("Our billions will be wasted for lack of an existing entrepreneurial class in the backward countries"). He looks askance at Europe's Schuman Plan for pooling steel resources, considers it an incentive to "socialism...
...squad of British workmen marched round the cathedral city of Salisbury (pop. 33,000) one day last week, carefully painting broad white circles around the metal telephone posts. The men had not gone mad, as some Sarumites suspected; they were simply trying to protect Her Britannic Majesty's property from ill-mannered dogs. After much experiment, Post Office researchers had reached a solemn conclusion: that not even dire necessity will drive a normal dog to cross a bright white line. Instead, dogs try to sneak around the end of the line, and, in the case of a circle, never...
Shirley and Gardner are now good friends ("He comes to all my plays and cries like mad"), and she has met his two sons by his second wife. But when Gardner asked if he could bring his wife backstage to meet Shirley, Shirley said...
...surprise, it turns out to be a studio hung with canvases. Grandgil, the arch-tough, is a painter. When his girl friend phones, and he tells her, "I disguised myself as a gangster . . . it's very easy, too easy," Martin turns blue-mad, says, "I know how to amuse myself with other people's work, too." and slashes a painting. When Grandgil leaps for him, he gets a knife in the belly. To the arresting police Martin says philosophically...