Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knows all the facts?he must know what he is doing." Even more of them express frank hostility toward the students. Says a Chicago ad salesman: "I'm getting to feel like I'd actually enjoy going out and shooting some of these people. I'm just so goddamned mad. They're trying to destroy everything I've worked for?for myself, my wife and my children...
...think my draft board likes anyone. I have learned not to take this personally. After all, they are fucking around with my life. But they are fucking around with everyone else's too. I bet they enjoy fucking around. That is why the lottery is driving them mad. Ever since the drawing after Thanksgiving, confusing and conflicting reports have come from all sectors: the Pentagon and the draft boards have been at continual odds in their projection of who will be the "winners." Many articles have been written decrying the lottery, holding it up as a sham...
...didn't use that excuse to put us off. She pointed out that neither of us was actually from Derwinski's district. At that point, we started an argument emphasizing the desirability of free exchange of ideas. A moment later, the woman turned her back and walked off mad. Derwinski has good taste...
...deep trouble, silent snowy night, also long ago. The present, for Beckett's tramp, seems a stretch of shingle beach, or a corner in Caliban's cell. There is an outrageously shaggy story about the arrangement of 16 pebbles in four pockets, which grows with mad logic from the very gleam with which MacGowran first so casually confides the notion of his "sucking stones." MacGowran has found, too, Beckett's lilting Celtic love of the earth that resonates unexpectedly with Dylan Thomas-except that where Thomas pounded and battered his great brass bell, Beckett touches his once...
...myself." The theme, which pulses in Troilus and Cressida, King Lear, Hamlet and western poetry, is that there is a conflict between words and poetry in which moral dignity and reason itself are consumed by degraded language. The nobility of man and woman must resist the corruption of mad discourse. The argument of values in Troilus and Cressida, a singularly distasteful but revelatory play, becomes a murderous melodrama of confused abstraction and disfigured moral orthodoxy. Men have lost the traditional meaning of reason, action, pride, and honor, yet oppose these, in bitter debates between corrosive delusions. This is the historic...