Word: moonstruck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a "revolutionary" mind. Genius or not, he is deceitful, lazy, lousy, and hardly knows up from down. His cardinal urges are sexual, although he doesn't begin to understand why. Pregnancy, everyone believes, is a matter of solitary female ritual, magic; the child is a fruit of moonstruck female blood. "There was not much to feed a man's ego," Novelist Fisher explains...
...truth seemed to be that the Nazis -while suppressing resisters-had courted Paris as a moonstruck lout courts a handsome woman. Paris had smiled grimly and waited her chance to kick the lout in the derriere. Last week...
...kids have begun to read novels and spout homilies to their parents. Papa (Henry Travers) and his crony (Hume Cronyn) are detective-story fans who get together every night after supper to trade amiable schemes for murdering each other. And daughter (Teresa Wright) is at the moonstruck age when she cannot bear the family's dullness a moment longer...
...slight, gentle little man with big ears and dreamy eyes, he has the calm, sad face of a moonstruck mystic. The look is misleading. A Puritan in his personal life, abstemious, logical in argument, part Indian, part Italian, philosopher, archeologist, scientist, scholar, Lombardo is a man of power. No longer head of C.T.M. , he is still leader of the C.T.A.L., the loosely knit Confederation of Latin American Workers. That fact, last week, was the key to his mission...
...fantastical poems entitled Pierre Lunaire is the last word in cacophony and musical anarchy. Some day it may be pointed out as of historical interest, because it represents the turning point, for the outraged muse surely can endure no more of this. Such noise must drive even the moonstruck Pierrot back to the realm of real music. Albertine Zehme . . . repeated the poems while a musical, or rather, unmusical ensemble . . . discoursed the most car splitting combination of tones ever to desecrate the walls of a Berlin music hall...