Word: madding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once he was back in his own state, Louisiana's mad Governor erupted once more. Scarcely had he signed in at New Orleans' Ochsner Foundation Hospital than he began demanding his release again. For three hours his doctors tried to outtalk him, but Earl insisted that he wanted only to drive to his farm-or maybe a friend's farm-where he could rest. He was, after all, still the Governor of Louisiana; nobody could stop him, he cried. But wife Blanche...
...lived on champagne or birdseed. Duff called strangers "darling" and friends "good chaps," had a title by marriage, and as anyone may guess, was the model for Hemingway's Lady Brett Ashley. Though happily married, Hemingway was apparently just enough involved with Duff himself to be oath-muttering mad when she and Harold took off for a two-week seaside idyll at St.-Jean...
Woman Obsessed (20th Century-Fox). "You'll never touch me again!" cries the red-haired Saskatchewan farm wife (Susan Hayward) at her rednecked husband (Stephen Boyd), who has just whopped her one in the face. She slams the bedroom door and locks it. Bellowing like a mad bull, he busts the door down and-blackout. Several scenes later, Susan announces bitterly that she is pregnant. As the four-column ads explain it: "She hated the child whose life stirred within her because it was part of him whom she loathed and despised." She prays that she will lose...
...more pious than her mother when she entered parochial school; she received Holy Communion three times a week and tried to practice self-mortification by scrubbing herself raw with pumice. But the day came when her longtime father-confessor charged her with arrogance and disobedience. Simone got flaming mad: "His priest's robe was only a disguise; it covered an old busybody who fed on gossip. With burning face I left the confessional, determined never to set foot in it again...
...sound, like ads for Rosicrucianism ("large increments of love are released that are fermenting in the Fertile Void"). What emerges is an allegory on whatever the reader chooses-the perversity of man, the bright illusion of love, the red-eyed aurochs of war. Dotted throughout the book are moon-mad digressions-a plan to enroll farm boys in the Joy Scouts of America, hike them into Harlem for instruction in reefer rolling; a 14-page hypothesis, mostly in verse, on why Ireland is underpopulated (it wasn't the snakes, Goodman theorizes, that nearsighted St. Patrick banished...