Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jack and Harry mad? The word has little meaning here. If we call them lunatics, they will only point to Alfred, who lifts and lowers furniture and speaks in monosyllables. If they are madmen, what is he? Lonely, sad, aimless, they are not so very different from us. Their world is an enlarged corner of our own. While most of us don't live in the home of Jack and Harry, ours is not the home of happy proverbs either. Which is why, though we may not be old men or madmen, we are nevertheless affected deeply by this play...
...Thieu feels neglected, however, he is not alone. Mme. Nguyen Cao Ky, the fetching wife of Thieu's Vice President, has been heard to complain with some heat: "I am mad at my husband. In the day he's busy with official business; at night he's busy with Gunsmoke...
...Vegas' International Hotel. By day, a pretty dull affair, not to be compared with Caesar's or the Sands. But by night! ELVIS. In mile-high neon. As if the very stars had fallen from the desert sky, the guts wrenched out of the moon; all so that some mad manipulator of electric gases could spell out ELVIS-COMIN AUGUST...
...people of Asia are, of course, the pitiful victims of these policies. But the United States will not escape. It is unlikely that we can continue indefinitely on this mad course without severe domestic depression and regimentation. For those who hope to rule the world, to win what some scholars like to call "the game of world domination," American policies in Southeast Asia may appear rational. To the citizens of the empire, at home and abroad, they bring only pain and sorrow. In this respect we are reliving the history of earlier imperial systems. We have had many opportunities...
...dozen of Haverhill's 2,400 high school students tried to lead a demonstration against the Cambodian invasion and the Kent and Jackson State killings. They were beaten by members of the football team while police quietly watched. This fall, they put out an underground paper called the Mad Hatter. According to a local attorney, the school committee reacted to its four-letter words "as if they had come on the first copy of Das Kapital." The members banned the sheet from the school, calling it "filth" and "insanity...