Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COMEDIES: British humor sometimes fails to function cisatlantically, but five British comedies are having a go at Broadway this season. Semi-Detached (Oct. 7) is a mad knitting of woolly middle-class values in English suburbia. Enid Bagnold's The Chinese Prime Minister, not yet produced in London, is about an old actress facing assorted personal problems, including a husband who turns up after a 29-year absence, and stars Margaret Leighton (January). Greatly popular on the West End last year were The Private Ear and The Public Eye-two thematically related one-acters by Peter Shaffer, author...
Among Unruh's many critics is Bart Lytton, a Los Angeles savings and loan millionaire, who does not believe Unruh has paid him the deference he deserves as one of California's top Democratic fund raisers. Unruh describes Lytton as "a mad genius, in equal parts." Lytton recently suggested that President Kennedy name Unruh to replace outgoing U.S. Postmaster General J. Edward Day. Explained Lytton: "There is a growing feeling among prominent and responsible Democrats that if Unruh is the issue in 1964, we'll probably lose the state. I am trying to advance his career beyond...
...careful." Editor Blair's statement acknowledged both his own authority to kill the story and his decision not to do so-a decision that apparently fitted Blair's program of rejuvenating the ailing Post by "sophisticated muckraking," and his ambition "to provoke people, make them mad...
Merely a Monster. Wagner is, indeed, the only composer in history whose work amounts to an authentic ism; no one ever speaks of "Bachism" or "Mozartism," but Wagnerism has emerged as a way of life more than once, usually with unfortunate results. Ludwig II, the Mad King of Bavaria, was an ardent disciple, but Wagner's most disastrous convert was Hitler, who said that an understanding of Nazi Germany required an understanding of Wagner. Hitler became a vegetarian in imitation of Wagner and liked to think that his SS embodied the spirit of Parsifal's Knights...
...worse writers than Fahey when he began his diary, and he improved but little in three years. Sentences are tortured into the passive voice until the reader is benumbed. The cliches that come to him naturally are as bad as the Navyese into which he gradually slips. He is mad deningly repetitious. His words are like the war itself^- just one damn thing after the other...