Word: madding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...completely detest Dave Beck's using the Fifth Amendment. However, I would rather see 100 money-mad union leaders get away with it rather than one teacher, entertainer or newspaperman scoff in the same manner when it concerns Communism...
...loose. New York's "Mad Bomber" was the terror of the city and the darling of crime reporters as he planted his homemade pipe-and-powder bombs in theaters and public buildings. Once captured, he turned out to be quiet, round-faced George Metesky, a 54-year-old bachelor who was more confused than cunning (TIME, Feb. 4). Last week, after studying Metesky's medical reports, Kings County Judge Samuel Leibowitz noted that Metesky, too unsound of mind to stand trial, is also dying of tuberculosis, committed him to a state hospital for the criminally insane. Said Leibowitz...
David Lange, on the other hand, who directed the second play, Where the Cross is Made, shows considerable adroitness with effects--the weird lighting turns out very well--but less control of his actors. Michael Medearis plays the nearly mad son of a mad sea captain with melodrama in every syllable. This sometimes comes off. John Baker, as his father, teeters between vivid strength and hamminess, but Barbara Bisco, as the captain's daughter, enters her role with fine if sometimes sudden emotion...
Finally fed up, Superintendent Moreland handed in his resignation. Said the Scripps-Howard Houston Press: "A black day for Houston ... In our opinion Dr. Moreland was just about the last brake that has kept the Houston school system from plunging into a mad whirlpool of uncontrolled extremism that has threatened it all these years. Dr. Moreland was a voice of sanity . . . We predict: after Moreland-the deluge...
...entertainment, Hotel Paradiso is a bit in-and-out itself. The show has lively spurts and is attractively dotted with mad scenes. Osbert Lancaster's expertly ghastly sets are part of the fun, and the play's various set-tos are here and there funny. The whole evening is a brightly instructive exhibit of the mechanics of French farce; it is never quite an occasion of full-bodied merriment...