Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign got dirty. Tunney accused Brown-falsely-of advocating violence. He said that Brown was too liberal, some kind of kook who had no business eying one of those plush, prestigious hundred seats majestically fanned out under the Capitol dome. And Brown got mad too. He lashed out at Tunney, saying that he was "acting like a poor little rich boy." And then this enigma, this seemingly phlegmatic, hard man who barely gave a damn, melted and publicly apologized. "I shouldn't have said it," moaned Brown...
...experience was too extravagant to be fiction and too real to be borne. Heller furnished the corpse with a vaudeville wardrobe, mixed in '50s America, and called his novel Catch-22. Black, mad and surreal, it told of a bombardier named Yossarian impaled on the insanity of war and struggling to escape. Undergraduates still see Yossarian as a lionly coward, the first of the hell-no-we-won't-go rebels who had to go anyway. To them, the book's final sentence limns the human condition as well as the hero's: "The knife came down, missing...
Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn was hopping mad. "This is a horrible piece of writing!" he fumed at Houston Astro Pitcher Jim Bouton, author of a new book called Ball Four. According to sources close to the commissioner's office, Kuhn went on: "You've done the game a grave disservice. Saying players kissed on the Seattle team bus-incredible! Or that some of our greatest stars were drunk on the field. What can you be thinking...
Some people are going crazy at Harvard. Those who really flip out end up in Stillman or McLean's. But others, not quite mad enough, have to hang around here until they freak out and someone notices...
...chronicler of presidential campaigns, has bemoaned what he calls "the Opinionated Mafia," located within "a one-mile radius of [Manhattan's] Fifth Avenue and 51st Street, who control 95% of opinion and influence making in the U.S.A. These people drink together, talk together, read the same esoteric and mad reviews." The Wall Street Journal picked up the theme last October, editorializing that "the Establishment-liberal media have been terribly faddish in their attitude toward Nixon." And of course the most vociferous proponent of the idea has been Vice President Agnew, who scarcely passes up a speech-making opportunity...