Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Most students are too mad, shy, or sick to complain while they're here," McKenna said Friday. "The complaint form is one way to open channels, and to collect documentation so that things can change." These forms are confidential, and should be forwarded to McKenna...
...excessive" amounts of liquor, often used tranquilizers at the same time, which is a "bad combination," and was suffering from a weak heart that impaired blood circulation to the brain. All that, he said, made her behavior "distorted and irrational." Going far beyond medical matters, he said she was "mad and disturbed" when she wrote her memo, and now had a "mental block" against recalling why she wrote it. He said that when she approached Mitchell at a Kentucky Derby party last May in the mansion of then Kentucky Governor Louie Nunn. Mitchell gave her "a dressing down such...
...Wallace.) It truly involves "the distance of the government from the people" of which Wallace spoke so often. Like so many other social techniques, busing is a way of passing on to the lower-middle class the costs of fixing the society. The lower-middle class is mad about this, and rightly...
...always has its magic, especially at night, when the beaches are deserted and the sand runs cool beneath your feet. The waves roll in, sighing at last up the shore. The sky glows faintly overhead and darkens at the horizon. At certain seasons, schools of tiny mad fish called grunion fling themselves on the sand to spawn; they come in shimmering silver waves and are decimated by grunion-hunters who scoop them up into buckets, alive and writhing and unsatisfied...
Most of them, however, did not, Something in them resisted overt madness, subverted it. They would not so easily let a dream go. The dream was not of reach, it is true, but these disappointed and half-mad men never lost their lust for it. Instead, they dwelt on it, their imaginations fed by the strangeness around them; they colored the image of the dream with the violence and exageration and passion of the landscape, and somehow, the dream became Realer than Reality, Larger than Life. They took the dream, and played with it, investing it with all the glamour...