Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emperor may have been right, but Rousseau's influence is still felt in the world today. Unable to answer any social obligation he wrote the most compelling book on the necessity of social obligations. Uneducated he changed the whole theory of education in a book called the Emile. Half mad, unstable, pathologic he had more influence over normal men than anyone in his century. Underneath all that was despicable and disgusting in his nature there was something fine and honest and sincere. It was something for which the 18th century had searched and found a half answer in the cynicism...
...caught in the act by the camera. . . . Back of the camouflage of uniform and music, oratory and popular cheering, this is the gist and essence of war at the point where it specifically operates. . . . Let this book, then, do its quiet work. Let it say . . . that war is a mad and barbarous business...
...name in the primary at odds with his no-candidate statement. Mayor Curley thereupon telegraphed Mr. Smith that he was "glad," published the correspondence in the Press and took to the air with a broad intimation that the Brown Derby was out of the race. Boiling mad, Mr. Smith flashed back: "You are trying to put me in a false light with my friends in Massachusetts. . . . I welcome their support. . . . I battled hard for the principles they stand for and I am ready to do so again. . . . Your telegram seems to me a bit tricky. . . ." Retorted Boston's Mayor...
...heart turned to them and against man who probably had been cruel to him. The seque; calling Johnson "mad," driving exhausted dogs...
...attention less by microscopic examination than by some serious shock to the tenor of his ways. Then the myriads of thoughts & memories rush helter-skelter every which way: they have strange encounters, make strange marriages. If they absorb too much of the man's attention he may go mad...