Word: madmanned
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...island in the East River? Is it an island of the mind? In either case it is another world, a world of dying buildings and delirious weeds, an enchanted kingdom where no bird sings and no leaf stirs and the sun sits in a puddle like a madman's eye on a plate. Then all at once the kingdom discloses its fairy prince and princess, a boy and girl (Curt Pfeffer and Hazel Ford) who wander amorously into a cosy ruin. The beauty of the girl compels the aging artist and the young man simultaneously but differently. While...
...created confusion within the party." Scorning Togliatti's parliamentary tactics, the Stalinists still prefer the revolutionary road to victory. Like Scoccimarro. most of the old guard are veterans of Mussolini's jails, but some are young toughs who shouted at a recent meeting: "Khrushchev is a madman who belongs in a padded cell...
...varsity basketball will play Columbia in New York tonight and Cornell in Ithaca tomorrow night, but trying to figure out what's going to happen is a job for an IBM machine, a divine, or a madman...
...almost irrelevant from one act to the next. His insanity is never explained or resolved; Morrow just decides to cure it and throw a little irrelevant philosophizing into the bargain. He doesn't even respect the audience enough to pretend to continuity. There's just the mountain and the madman, like props...
Heller's Yossarian might have been the creature of a benign Kafka-engagingly bedeviled, drolly pathetic. By feigning madness in ways that only a madman could invent (standing naked in formation to receive a Distinguished Flying Cross, marching backward in parades), Yossarian proclaims his withdrawal from the whole business of the war itself...