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Unhappily, the cheery peace of this literary sampler is broken by a scarlet thread that runs wild through it all. William Cowper was a madman. He spent every moment of his last 25 years under the delusion that God hated him personally. Worse yet, Cowper's God was irrevocably determined to betray him at every turn in this life, and to torture him eternally in the next. Under this ghastly sentence, Cowper wretchedly took up, as he said, "the arduous task of being merry by force." He found temporary oblivion in lighthearted verse and in thousands of eloquent, cheerful...
...Nehru, at least to Western eyes, is no inscrutable, innocent madman of integrity like William Blake. Why, then-Western minds would like to know-doesn't Nehru the moralist make Nehru the leader hang his head in shame? Perhaps he does; but the practical West, which must deal with net results, is necessarily less concerned with Nehru the paradox than with Nehru the politico...
...from a desert asylum for the criminal insane to find out whether he really committed the murder that put him there five years before. Mercedes McCambridge gamely turns up again, this time as a singing waitress who helps Ireland recover his lost memory and uncover the true culprit: a madman with a thriving business as a psychologist...
Finishing with Butterflies. Dominguez held one exhibition in Paris during the German occupation, went into hiding when he saw the reviews. "How is it that this madman is allowed to move freely?" a Nazi critic demanded. "Why don't they arrest this lunatic?" Since the war, Dominguez has followed Picasso's lead in painting halfway abstract versions of recognizable scenes. Combining bold simplicity with great finesse, they have earned him an enviable reputation in Great Britain and the U.S. as well as in Europe...
...fervently as a madman...