Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just read your article concerning Peter Stafford of the U.S. Postal Department, and it made me rather mad. You state that he only makes $8,030 a year, and that he should be making $11,236 merely because he has a large family. I can't see how one can determine a person's earning power by how well he can produce children. It seems to me that a person's earnings should depend on his skill and education. Can you say that a person earning the same amount as Stafford but having only...
...historic Woodstock festival. In those days, working with an instrumental quartet called the Grease Band, Cocker had the habit of taking light rock, such as softer ditties by the Beatles, and giving it the heavy treatment. Now Joe has a large new group (36 friends known as Mad Dogs and Englishmen). It can back him up in anything from jazz to low-down blues to gospel singing. Gruff and virile of tone, but now obviously a star, Joe belts out his songs as to the manna born. He knows just when to shout, just when to pout, just when...
...including ex-Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and ex-Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss. In Cat and Mouse (1961), a nearly flawless small novel about German teenagers during World War II, Grass openly made fun of the Iron Cross?by having his hero dangle it in front of his genitals. Mad dreams of superstates, militarism and the kind of procrustean idealism that makes preposterous demands and holds out impossible hopes for society are inevitable Grassian targets. But Grass has also cleverly spun the coin of guilt to show that the Nazi nightmare was built upon Everyman's petty greed, with...
Cornell has a solid core of returning veterans, Yale will be mad after last year's humiliating season, Columbia and Penn are rebuilding, and only Brown will be a patsy. The addition of Schaaf gave the Crimson a real boost, it remains to be seen if it will be enough...
According to Kaplan. "They wanted to start another humor magazine because there is no national equivalent to Punch (a British publication), and Mad is too high schoolish..., Twenty-First Century agreed to pay for it and the Lampoon agreed to franchise the name." Kaplan said that the franchise gives the local Lampoon the right to have the final say on all National Lampoon copy. Unfortunately, Kaplan did not exercise his option of editing the April galley proofs, although he did make changes in the forthcoming May edition...