Word: bedlam
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...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...
Within nine minutes the President and his party were at the studio, where bedlam ruled as technicians raced about to set up cameras, microphones and a room for the broadcast. CBS had 20 minutes' notice from the White House, and no one was even certain what the President had to say. Watching the confusion, Johnson quipped to Willard Wirtz: "I guess we got these guys a little upset." At 6:45 p.m. the President went...
...headlines of the past two months testify that Africa is still a continent of chaos and contradiction. Since the year began, crises have erupted at a rate of one a week, and it seems that in the alphabet of independent Africa, A is for anarchy, B is for bedlam, and C is for coup...
...Tall buildings rise in Europe with a minimum of traffic tie-ups and almost no noise, in pleasant contrast to the bedlam at most building sites in the U.S. Main reason for the difference is the kind of crane builders use: in the U.S. most of them use "crawler" cranes that clog streets and growl angrily under the strain of hoisting a load; in Europe, construction men have learned over the past decade to employ the self-mounting "tower" crane, which is powered by a quietly humming electric motor instead of a diesel, operates off the street-usually from...