Word: maniac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prettily dressed and decorated. Sylvia Sidney, as the target for tonight, and John Hodiak, as the maniac, play it as if they 1) wished they were elsewhere, but 2) felt that they owed some kind of minimum to their employers and their conscience as craftsmen. Supporting players are given to lines like "Yon storm'll be upon us main soon."*Others merely curtsy, mew incoherently or tug their forelocks. For what it is worth-a middling curdler-the whole thing was much better done in 1937 by Basil Rathbone and Ann Harding...
...last Saturday he bustled into the Assembly carrying a black briefcase. What was in it? someone asked. Said M. Schuman: "Vous verrez ce que vous verrez" (wait and see). What the Assembly saw amazed it; nothing so strong had been expected. What the Communists saw goaded them to a maniac pitch of fury...
...masses, by stifling all industrial and educational development to the unavoidable minimum. Rigidly enforced legislative measures magnified petty local differences to a vast national scale, where Hindus and Moslems secured desperately needed government jobs mainly on a religion basis, till in the ensuing bitterness and frustration a power maniac like Jinnah could suddenly leap out of the shadows and, screaming wildly, lead hundreds of thousands over the chasm's edge. . . . We have made our mistakes, but history will record that a great portion of the guilt lies on that "admirable" power now so "benign in her twilight...
Many of the nations of Europe and the Far East are still gripped by the cold, hunger, and stagnation which breed vice, crime, and revolution; but they are loosed from the maniac-driven war chariot of the Axis, and they look to a future, far from untroubled yet tempered by the hope for better days. The vision of One World has faded, and its place been taken by the fact of two worlds--divided ideologically and politically. Yet much of this division is due to lack of knowledge (a condition which can be rectified) and to a simple and natural...
...worries about almost everything under the stars, plumped for a "positive friendship for civilization, expeditiously organized and steadily maintained. . . . Time is short," he warned. The five great threats as he saw them in climactic order: pandemic plague, world warfare with superweapons; boredom; sexually debilitating dope; and "the genius-maniac." The simple way to dispose of the last: ". . . Kill off, while young, all primates that show any evidence of promise. . . ." The words were hardly out of his mouth before alarmed citizens were asking when the killing was supposed to start. Dr. Shapley gritted his teeth, explained that he was just trying...