Word: madder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guitar, of course; drives a tan Plymouth with Texas plates; watches TV in cheap motels where he stops briefly. He is a traveling man. Soft-spoken and polite. He dines on Whoppers and writes love notes to a teen-age movie star at Yale-while going madder by the minute, buying guns and hitting the dream cities of Denver, Nashville, Dallas and L.A., until he arrives by Greyhound at the city of the country's heart, which he is driven to penetrate. So after a while even he becomes real. At week's end one understands not everything...
Playwright Tennessee Williams is madder than a cat on a hot tin roof about the reviews that crumpled his Clothes for a Summer Hotel as soon as it opened on Broadway last March. "I'll never open a play in New York again," he vows. Williams is therefore discussing an alliance with the Goodman Theater in Chicago, hoping the city that raved about the premiere of his first play, The Glass Menagerie, will once again be his kind of town. "This move was forced on me," insists the Pulitzer prizewinner. "I can't get good press from...
...short, people today ask things from capitalism that no system can deliver. They confuse hope with promise. When everyone begins demanding more, the Inevitable result is a madder scramble for a nation's limited output and a bidding up of prices. Says Albert T. Sommers, chief economist of the Conference Board, a leading business research group: "The failure of our political system to contain the growth of social demands within limits tolerable to the free market is the essential first cause of inflation...