Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defeat," fleshed out his historical material with imaginary dialogue and even occasional fictitious characters. Morrison obviously has some misgivings. "Often, I confess, I was unable to separate 'fact' from 'invention,' so deftly did Prescott weave them together to give the illusion of veracity. Was Prescott mad, I wondered? Was he taking revenge on innocent readers like myself for the grotesqueries that he had experienced in international politics, for the deceptions and lies he had swallowed?" Concludes Morrison: "The reader should be forewarned...
...surprise, was risk the disorder of civil war and bloodshed, however brief. When Boulanger was about to be overwhelmingly elected Deputy on a national ticket, an aide routinely asked him: "Will you sleep in the Elysée, or will you have the Chamber of Deputies invaded?" "Are you mad?" Boulanger replied. On the eve of the expected coup, members of the government were already burning secret documents. Crowds and troops stood ready for his word to march. Boulanger simply retired to his bed, taking Marguerite de Bonnemains with...
...umpire!" Far right and far left, the angry man in politics prefers the pleasure of being furious to the pleasure of actually having an effect. Demanding final solutions only, he chooses, in Critic Renata Adler's words, "to use the vocabulary of total violence, cultivate scorched-earth madness as a form of consciousness (of courage, even), to call history mad...
Their friends in the cities call them escapists. The New Left scorns them as naive. To their "straight" neighbors on farms or in small villages, they all too often look like sex-mad anarchists. But the thousands of Americans who have chosen to create a new life in rural communes regard themselves as a new generation of pioneers pursuing that most elusive of goals-the ideal society...
...really intend to betray his country but to persuade it with right reason. He saw himself as a Confucian scholar-statesman, and plastered the town of Rapallo with moralistic slogans: HONESTY IS THE TREASURE OF STATES. His daughter sees him as a lone wolf howling in a world gone mad...