Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SAUL ALINSKY has possibly antagonized more people-regardless of race, color or creed-than any other living American. From his point of view, that adds up to an eminently successful career: his aim in life is to make people mad enough to fight for their own interests. "The only place you really have consensus is where you have totalitarianism," he says, as he organizes conflict as the only route to true progress. Like Machiavelli, whom he has studied and admires, Alinsky teaches how power may be used. Unlike Machiavelli, his pupil is not the prince but the people...
...this message across, he shuttles between being mad (angry) and mad (crazy), which is a little like trying to combine Marx with the Marx Brothers. Each tends to cancel out the other. In The White House Murder Case, a minor crisis of statecraft is in progress. "Operation Total Win," a maneuver launched during an undeclared war against Brazil, has suffered a slight setback. A U.S. nerve gas known as Peace Gas has floated astray and killed 750 American boys...
...magic succeeds for heartening reasons. Boll puts narrative above experimentation. His "neorealism" cares more for compassion than savage attack. His moral vision deals with the guilt in the technically innocent. Above all, Boll continues to be loftily serious about an age that many writers have given up as mad...
Schallert notes that priests spend "an average of four to five years agonizing over their decision before walking out of the door. They probably spend more time deciding to leave than they spend deciding to enter the ministry. They just don't get mad at somebody and walk out in a huff. The priest who leaves may be frustrated at the difficulty in finding a way to work for the church, but he is not angry...
...Such mad days we have seen, Jesu. Such mad days...