Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among dissident Soviet intellectuals, the man who best embodies the spirit of loyal opposition to the Kremlin is Roy Medvedev, 46, an educator-turned-historian and a dedicated Marxist-Leninist. Last month a London publisher brought out a Russian-language edition of Who Is Mad? (to be published in the U.S. on Dec. 1 by Alfred A. Knopf under the title A Question of Madness), co-authored by Roy and his twin brother Zhores. a prominent biologist. It describes Zhores' 19-day confinement in a madhouse for his political behavior, and Roy's ultimately successful efforts...
...studio was squalid in those days of 1907, the painting in it, Les Démoiselles d'Avignon (16), struck Picasso's fellow artists as little short of mad. André Derain feared it presaged Picasso's suicide, and its hacked dislocation alarmed Braque, who compared the performance to "someone drinking gasoline and spitting fire." Perhaps it is too simple to say that Cubism "came out of" Demoiselles, for the raggedness, fury and inconsistencies of the canvas were alien to the spirit of calm inquiry that afterward pervaded Cubist painting. But Demoiselles was so extreme that...
...DARTMOUTH--The Eli are on an unexpected two-game losing streak and have fallen below 500 overall. You know who rambled for 200 yards through the pride of the Yale defense. Oh-oh, Dartmouth is not as good as an undefeated team should be, but Jake Crouthamel has been mad this week and only spells Dartmouth...
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs...
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs...