Word: madding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mind's eye with the ear. The Workshop's, first director, the late Irving Reis, was a onetime control-room engineer, who sweated over electrical filters, oscillators and echo chambers to produce the sound of fog, the footsteps of gods, the dissonance of bells driving someone mad, the witches in Macbeth, the feel of going under ether. A sound made listeners see doors open and close. When someone in the play was stabbed, listeners were made to feel it as a sound-effects man hovered over a mike and knifed a watermelon...
...Kennedy, ski coach, said the skiers, competing on an individual basis, had taken the places of absent Crimson runners. Peabody said one man ran twice under two different names. The incidents took place in the Mad River Glen Class "C" Giant Slalom...
...handle the bill on the floor, Johnson picked Oklahoma's amiable Senator Mike Monroney, at whom nobody ever gets mad. Backing Monroney was Arkansas' syrup-toned Senator William Fulbright, who specializes in charm. In the background was Oklahoma's heavy-fisted, wrath-kindling Senator Robert Kerr, longtime champion of the gas producers...
Throughout most of the rest of New England ski conditions have left much to be desired. Middlebury Snow Bow and Mad River Glen are both rated as "fair to poor...
...things critics say about them," admitted that on opening night something had happened to him halfway through the play for the first time in his life that he had always "despised" in other actors: "I really believed the play. I was playing the part of a man who went mad and I was mad. I thought I was getting better and better. But I was so seized with it that I ceased to communicate with the audience...