Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayor asked all pastors, priests and rabbis to preach on religious freedom and democracy next Sunday, enclosed a pretty fair 1,500-word "outline" of the sort of sermon he hoped for. In a nation where Church and State are constitutionally separate, the mere suggestion made numerous ministers mad. Maddest was Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of the arch-isolationist Christian Century...
Only commercial station in the country that devotes 80% of its broadcasting day to classical music, WQXR needed some such catalyst as a mad night" at the Waldorf before it could go the whole way in recognizing jazz...
...mad gestures and faces Kaye makes are enough to win him a niche in comic pantomime; they shrink to nothing compared with his whirlwind patter, his miraculous doubletalk. Even as he enacted Melody in Four F (written for him by his wife, Sylvia Fine, and Max Liebman), first-nighters suspected that they were seeing the birth of another such theater classic as Robert Benchley's Treasurer's Report, Joe Cook's Four Hawaiians...
...literary style or any profound historical knowledge. Nor do I have a new angle in the well-worn intervention-non-intervention debate that I want to get out of my system. That, it doesn't seem to me is of real importance. I am writing it because I am mad, as most everyone else is mad, that we should be doing something that clearly doesn't help us achieve our aims, and that we clearly don't want to do. I am mad because we are blind, because we don't realize the hopeless contradictions between our ideals...
...which it grapples. Yet within this limitation it achieves a certain power and vitality, fully expressed by the Repertory's able cast. Life in the post-war twenties is depicted as a vortex of ever-accelerating tempo which sucks in both young and old, and crushes them in a mad whirl of meaningless activity, devoid of all values, empty of all reality. A climax is reached in the mad piano-playing of young Nicky in the second act, louder and louder as his sensitive mind is driven close to insanity by the chaotic scene that surrounds him; his solution...