Word: berserk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back up in the press box, the broadcaster for Boston University's radio station was going berserk with two minutes left in the game. "Harvard has the ball in its own territory, and Frank Champi is in there. Champi is the one who performed the heroics against Yale last year, and everyone is wondering, can be do it again. It's all on Champi's shoulders now!" Meanwhile, the B. U. News guy was waiting for Szaro to put on his helmet, and I looked down and saw that it really was B. U. that we were playing...
Instead, in the bloodiest single period of the war, Anya Nya rebels attacked government forces, brutally mutilating an Arab sergeant at Juba in the process. The Arab soldiers went berserk, killing hundreds of blacks and burning countless huts...
Volunteers for Science. One convulsively funny item is a spoof on the measurement of human sexual responses. Two volunteers for science strip to the buff, are maneuvered into position on a wheeled table and plastered with sensing devices. These are wired to a console that lights up like a berserk jukebox as the couple begins intercourse. To complete the burlesque, a Harpo Marxish doctor hovers around, leering at the pair with the added cyclopean eye of a dental mirror. Other skits treat oral sex and masturbatory fantasies with sportive humor, and the sprinkling of quadriliterals beginning with the letters...
...they have developed, however, Wolfe's essays have taken on a more structured approach (and he is now working on a reportorial novel), but he will always remain the great journalist of kitsch. He is the chronicler of modern America's myths, and myths have a tendency to go berserk--even as they are being told...
Common Cause. Nixon's second aim was "protection against the possibility of accidental attacks from any source." Should either a Chinese or a Soviet Strangelove go berserk, an attack might strike anywhere-and a limited defense would not necessarily be effective against it. Nixon's third stated aim was the shakiest: "Defense of the American people against the kind of nuclear attack which Communist China is likely to be able to mount within the decade." It was a difficult line of reasoning to maintain, since the Chinese, until at least the mid-1970s, will not have the sophisticated...