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...usual, reform made itself most felt among the helpless-notably criminals, lunatics and children. There were phrenological theories on how to run jails, cure madmen and bring up kids. U.S. schoolteachers testified that they no longer needed the rod because they conducted their classes on phrenological lines. Soon half the adolescents in the U.S. were guiltily fingering their Bump of Amativeness. Good men in a hundred small towns were prospecting their scalps for favorable bumps, or stealthily sliding over the depressions where the good green hills of spirituality should have been...
...whirling panorama of slant hatted insurance salesmen, cow-like women, bull-like men, and smiling madmen, Harington weaves a crazy pattern of the present. His starting thread is Hal Hingham, an agent of Arcadia Life, afraid of sales prospects, and frightened of his bulbous, seductive landiady. The image of Hingham the failure is obvious: "The broken, abandoned pencil-sharpener had depressed him. It reminded him of himself. People didn't care how they treated mass-produced equipment." He was a nobody in world that seemed complex and cruel. Even at childhood his father appeared one day only long enough...
...wish to deal with reasonable men, so you'll have to deal with madmen," said one of the Istiqlal leaders when the French arrested him. Madmen were soon on the warpath. In the teeming bidonvilles, where few Frenchmen dare enter, veiled women made grenades. Their menfolk banded together in terrorist societies-the Black Crescent, Black Hand, and many others. Egged on by the mullahs and by the Voice of the Arabs, a Cairo propaganda station supported by the Egyptian government, young Moslem fanatics began bombing French stores, derailing trains and stabbing French civilians. In 1954, the long knives...
...Those madmen over at Disney's" became a Hollywood byword. One Disney animator, for instance, was found lying flat on his back on the sidewalk in a pouring rain. As a policeman dragged him off to the station house, the fellow protested that he had been "studying lightning...
Like most madmen they have excellent "reasons" for destroying the very ground they walk on. Old Mrs. Harding thinks it will make it easier to find her teeth. Hemper hopes to take advantage of the fire to steal and "measure" Agatha's baby (he will give her a clockwork one. made by Applesmith. instead). Also among the "fire-raisers" are an innocent Kaffir boy, who merely wants to cook a decent meal, and Negro Servant Benjamin, who has lost patience with the sickness of his masters. "Burn, Africa, burn," he cries, as he strikes his match, "to tell...