Word: mad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Idel Rosenfelt to jail on charges of negligence, i.e., using poor cement. Many of the city's survivors would have to learn to live permanently with tragedy. One woman, who was dug free after lying huddled for 27 hours with the bodies of her husband and baby, went mad...
...lady is, of course, Countess Aurelia--the title personage of Jean Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot (La folle de Chaillot). Giraudoux wrote three versions of this play shortly before he died in 1944. Had he lived longer he could not have improved it much; indeed, the mad tea party is absolutely perfect. He never wrote a greater play, and only his Electre can perhaps equal...
...Countess is not alone in her madness. She has three mad colleagues, and is surrounded by a large number of lesser persons all of whom have a few screws loose. In fact, every single character in the play seems to be mad in at least one way. The point is, though, that it's the war-bent men who are really mad; the Countess and her entourage may be completely crazy in a lot of small matters, but they are quite sane in things that count. The Countess not only is able to get rid of the malefactors...
This production is splendid theatre. Anyone who does not leave it a better person and has not been thoroughly entertained in the process is obviously mad...
Restyled. In Pittsburgh, Carpenter Paul Eisel got so mad at his wife for serving pork chops that he smashed the dining-room table and several other pieces of furniture, remarked before he was fined $10 that it was "hand-me-down stuff, anyway. I was planning to have it replaced...