Word: mad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When it comes to security, I recollect that in the early Twenties we were mad for it. Furthermore, we were certain we would get it-a delusion to which the young today are too perceptive to attach themselves . . . Young people want answers to their questions about the meaning and the destiny of man . . . The pathos of their situation is that in their quest for faith they have no one to turn to but their elders, who have gone so long themselves without...
...star always the grandly tragic figure she is supposed to be. But if the scripters have not made the most of their theme, Bette Davis makes the most of her role. Her performance as an ex-first lady of the screen is first-rate. She is, by turns, mad and loving, nasty and nice, happy and unhappy. She appears in chic clothes and drab ones, is sad at a gay Hollywood party, watches herself on the screen, is jailed for drunken driving, works as a saleslady in a department store. It is a marathon one-woman show...
...Quad," this year's Drumbeats and song production, began this week with the final selection of principals. "Destination Quad" is the story of the events following the landing of a space ship from Mars in the Radcliffe quadrangle. The plot is further complicated by the presence of a power-mad dorm president who tries to persuade the Martian visitors to help her conquer the world...
...foot on U.S. shores for the first time just five days before, "to find everyone [in New York] suffering from war and atom phobia in their most advanced forms." Correspondent Champion found bombproof safe-deposit boxes "strictly for dollars ... no humans need apply," a Broadway "populated with sex-mad morons," and "one advertisement everywhere: Blood donors wanted. High cash payments given on the spot." (Champion admitted later that "everywhere" was actually only in small classified...
...Fuller, as befits the wife of a man concerned almost exclusively with the future, is apt to murmur "How nice, darling," in answer to almost any revelation from her husband. Once when he was deep in numerology, he conducted a marital quarrel entirely in digits. "He was terribly mad at me that night," Anne Fuller recalled, "but all he would say was '27-4-32.' " Genealogy connects Buckminster Fuller to Transcendental Concord, Mass.; he is the grandnephew of Margaret Fuller, friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson...