Word: crazier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They laughed, they ridiculed, they looked at me as if I had just taken a called third strike in softball. You must be crazy, they said, even to consider this. You must be crazier, they said, to show your legs in public...
...more, who needs it? One solid week of review before vacation would approximate the time we actually get under the present system, and the prospect of a true vacation following exams would assuage some of the tension that always arises during this time. The atmosphere couldn't be any crazier than what exists every night in Harvard's libraries--believe me, when Hilles is full you know something's up. As things stand now, the menace of finals can ruin a vacation; and even worse, when exams finally end we are denied a significant respite from our labors by having...
Hurry Tomorrow is less about the social origins or definitions of sanity then how provisionally-crazy people, once they're committed, are driven crazier. A black patient, for example, was told when he arrived at the hospital from jail that his charges would be dismissed; later he's led to believe that he had been confused--or crazy. Others are more bluntly lied...
...gets a pretty good blaze going, and it is not long before Carrie is rushing around her California ranch-style house trying to extinguish herself, all the while looking as if she has just been hot-wired in a beauty shop. She expires, however, and Husband James goes even crazier. The fire bugs stun him with a show of their united intelligence and strength. Completely snapped, Parmiter tumbles into the fissure, the bugs besieging and barbecuing him relentlessly, and the earth swallows them all up. Man was not meant for such knowledge, or for such movies either...
...knows the goalie's risks better than the Philadelphia Flyers' Bernie Parent. "You don't have to be crazy to be a goalie," says Parent, "but it helps." If so, Parent must be crazier than most. For the past two years, he has been the best goal tender in hockey. Last year Parent all but carried the Flyers to the playoffs. He appeared in 73 of their 78 games, led the league in shutouts (twelve), and had the lowest goals-against average per game (1.89). In the playoffs he shut down the high-scoring offenses...