Word: madness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dwight Elsenhower, screamed Moscow's Literary Gazette, is a "mad warmonger," and his Crusade in Europe is "a peculiar mixture of insinuations, born of megalomania and artificial delirium." Ike himself didn't think it was quite so bad, although, like any neophyte author, he had a few doubts. In the New York Times Book Review he admitted that "I'm still not dead sure [it was worth bringing out]. I'm no critic. I've been a soldier all my life, and when you come down to it it's simply an old soldier...
...Actress. The De Havilland performance is happily free of the traditional weeping and gnashing of teeth which most actors seem to relish in "mad" parts. Her Virginia is not thrashing about in darkness, but is blinded and bewildered by too much light. What gives her bewilderment a special quality is the firm, almost prim, dignity which she sustains even in the animal moments of Virginia's madness. She is excellent in the little scenes of rebellion-carefully preserved from the novel-with which Virginia tries to shake off her fate. And she can speak lines of questionable worth with...
...last line is usually accompanied by giggles and gestures of pawing the floor with one foot. The entire performance, which may be repeated at intervals until 5 p.m. on the 24th, has been known to drive stout-hearted men mad...
...Mad Lear. Copey had one great rival in the English department-George Lyman Kittredge. He was a stormy lecturer, now prancing across his dais like a mad Lear, now hurling his pointer across the room as if it were a spear. When someone asked him how long it took him to prepare a lecture, he answered, "Just a lifetime-can't you see that?" If a student fearfully quoted the dictionary pronunciation of a word to him, Kitty would whip out an old envelope to jot it down. "That's wrong," he would murmur...
...echoes in the American ear are certain voices of the more-distant prewar era (now making Bartlett for the first time): Joe Jacobs' "We wuz robbed" and "I should of stood in bed"; Mae West's "Come up and see me some time"; Noel Coward's "Mad dogs and Englishmen"; Henry Wallace's "Century of the common man"; Archibald MacLeish's "America is promises...