Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EVEN before last week's skyjackings to Libya and Cuba, professional airline pilots throughout the U.S. and Europe were hopping mad about the rising threat that such acts of terrorism pose to themselves and their passengers. In a recent report to the Flight Safety Foundation, an organization devoted to airline safety problems, Eastern Air Lines Vice President Michael Fenello declared that U.S. airlines are "going backward instead of forward in dealing with the problem...
...long roots in exile, loneliness and disappointment, as well as in a curious lack of compassion, evident in much of his poetry. It was Eliot who best described Pound's weakness, when he wrote, "Pound's hells are for other people." Eliot became a British citizen. Mad Ireland hurt Yeats into poetry. William Carlos Williams had his doctoring. Frost never left New England. In the poetry of the age, Ezra Pound was the lost leader-and the man who never found a home...
Perry (David and Lisa, Diary of a Mad Housewife) resists their every effort, and eventually defeats them. The novel had Maria crushed by the anomie symbolized-perhaps too patly -by Southern California. The movie explains nothing. Perry is like a snorkle diver bobbing about in a bowl of angst. Content to float along watching the curious creatures beneath him, he never gets below the surface...
...grown considerably long in the tooth. At the top of this gallimaufry was the biggest flake of them all, Owner Finley, who carried his team round the country for years looking for a nice home before settling in Oakland. Finley personally leads the cheers in the stands like some mad Roman emperor...
...story about a father searching for his lost son (Harvard drop-out, naturally), the parents have become the lonely and confused generation. They "cast nets for blame", because they are ready to accept that the problems of the young are the fault of the old, wondering whether they are mad to remain hopeful during what appear to be the death throes of their society. While "it was their young who raged at it, or mourned...