Word: madness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barnum & Bailey had come to the Balkans. Under the big Red top the Soviet Bear was calling the acts. In the spotlight the Cominform, nine-headed dog of the Kremlin, was beating up on Tito, Yugoslavia's own ringmaster. And the Communist puppets clapped like mad...
...waiting for the "traitors." While Red army men and Russian policemen watched, Communist thugs closed in. They pounded the stomach and back of Socialist Otto Bach until he had a hemorrhage. Said Jeanette, who had been put in a concentration camp by the Nazis for being Jewish: "They are mad. This is 1933 all over again." She, too, was beaten, but got away...
Ashore, the fighting stopped. Irgunists withdrew to their grey stone fortress headquarters in Tel Aviv. Then they got orders from Beigin to go underground. From a secret radio Beigin screamed defiance at the "mad dictatorship" of the Ben-Gurion government, called on Irgunists to leave Israel's army. "If we go down," shrilled Beigin, "we will see to it that the state of Israel sinks with us! If I am killed, the fury of my soldiers will know no bounds . . . They will avenge me, and I fear that the youth of Israel will be wiped out in a single...
Tear-Jerker. Ophelia is not an easy role, nor is it any too clearly written. Most actresses who try it (besides being old enough to spank Polonius) are likely to play the sane scenes like mad scenes and the mad scenes like a little-theater production of Ring Lardner's Clemo Uti, or the Water Lilies...
...tender suggestion of nascent maturity. All this may go a long way toward persuading 20th Century audiences that a young girl really could so sedulously obey a meddlesome old father, and really could lose her mind when her estranged lover killed him. She plays the mad scenes as if she had never heard that Ophelia is one of Shakespeare's most shameless tearjerkers, and as if her lovely language and her cracked, ribald little songs were drifting out of a broken soul for the first time, rather than for the third century...