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...ANNUAL AND UNFAILingly upbeat report on the American horn of plenty. All this stuff for sale, more in heaven and earth than was dreamt of in even the maddest consumer's philosophy: buggy whips and barbering aids, covered wagons and canaries, tires and trousseaux, countless doodads that seemed unnecessary until they popped up on the page. From the Sears catalog, known affectionately as the "big book," customers could order everything necessary to equip a house: furniture, appliances, rugs, cooking and eating utensils and paint. Between 1908 and 1937, they could also order the house itself. All told, Sears sold...
...obstacle faced the Lennon biographer-to-be: John's story from his birth up to the dissolution of the Beatles, toward the end of 1969, has been endlessly researched, told and repeated. Hence roughly half of Goldman's immense book deals with Lennon's post-Beatle period, the ten maddest and least productive years of his adult life...
...clever and adopt writer, he puts a lot of funny lines into Savage's mouth. He remarks that Scaduto's wife "was one of those people who can say. "I just wrote a poem,' and make it round like, 'I just flushed the canary down the toilet'--like the maddest, most irrational act on earth." Of the English, he observes that they...
...affections and, accompanied by his two friends Cyril and Florian, scales the walls of Castle Adamant--which serves as the university's campus. The three are, of course, openly scornful of the whole idea. Florian seems to speak for Gilbert when he says. "A woman's college! Maddest folly going! What can girls learn within its walls worth knowing?...I'll teach them twice as much in half an hour outside...
...humane society would let Condon off the hook. His early books, The Oldest Confession, The Manchurian Candidate and A Talent for Loving, are among the maddest funny novels of the last couple of decades. They seemed to have been written by Mephistopheles, raucous with glee at the insane excesses of the human creature. But Condon's last several books have been querulous and scolding...