Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Patience, like incest or the mad uncle locked in the attic, is the type of thing everyone has heard about but very few experience. It is usually passed over for the better known works of Gilbert and Sullivan, for it lacks the fire of Feydeau or the mirth of Moliere. Nonetheless, done well, it is an entertainment worthy of note, and at Agassiz, it is being done as well...
Richard Speck, the half-mad drifter who murdered eight student nurses in Chicago, was sentenced to death five years ago, but in the wake of Supreme Court rulings against capital punishment, he cannot be executed. His odd prediction: "As sure as having Jesus Christ on one side and the devil on the other, and a wheelbarrow filled with four or five million dollars in the middle, I'm going to get 500 to 1,000 years." Judge Richard J. Fitzgerald went even further. He imposed a sentence of 50 to 150 years for each murder, consecutively, a total...
...believe himself There was Dean Rush the Georgia boy who became a Rhodes scholar an anticommunist fundamentalist a skipper who saved loyal even after the shop had sunk And who could forget Maxwell Taylor the golden general the general who wrote books." Of Walt M. Rostow the mad bomber from MIT. It was quite a cast. It was quite a show...
...McMurphy, the hero of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest after only a short time inside a state mental hospital. From Shakespeare to Marnt-Sade to Durrenmatt, writers have attempted to probe the implications of insanity and to articulate the paradoxes that best madness. McMurphy soon learns that, as one of the doctors puts it, "the asylum is 'society in miniature.'" From his first boisterous appearance, crashing in as a recent "committal" from the state prison farm, to when he lies stretched out under a sheet, a dead "Vegetable," McMurphy is determined to prove that...
...only takes McMurphy a short while to learn the art of picking apart his ago in search of all the answers. Like Billy, like the Chief, he realizes that the final explanation never comes, that this maze of endless questioning is more than enough to drive a man mad, that once he has started to explore the depths of his own mind, he will never find...