Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Judge) Moursund, Lyndon's old friend and trustee of his financial interests. The President sat slumped in a living-room chair for a while and watched the election returns on television. Then, by helicopter, he and his party flew to Austin's Driskill Hotel, waded into the bedlam of newsmen, TV cameras and well-wishers who attended Johnson's every movement. Solemn, scarcely smiling, he shook hands with several people, at length slipped into a suite, where again he checked the TV election roundup. But Lyndon couldn't sit still. Periodically during the evening, he emerged...
...bedlam of the Kennedy-Keating battle has obscured a central question: who would best represent New York in the United State Senate...
...Sources of Bedlam...
...happy bedlam of chatting mothers and playful children at the Shriners Hospital in Springfield, Mass., last week seemed almost like a family reunion. Yet there was a difference: the children all used artificial limbs. They were at the hospital for a monthly checkup. The very cheerfulness of the gathering, however, illustrated the hope that new advances in orthopedics have brought to both handicapped children and their understandably concerned parents...
Hudson, and Elizabeth Bishop's poem about Ezra Pound in St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the mentally ill, which becomes a chilling Baedeker of bedlam. Rorem has jettisoned tonality, but his rhythms are generally as even as pulse beats, and he lets voices rise and flow within their nat ural limits...