Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coordinator for Raleighs in Washington, senses a conflict in female emotions. Explains she: "Women don't know if they want to be daring and sexy or romantic and Victorian. These new tops bare the shoulder. But some of them come in puckered gingham. They're selling like mad and it's because women want to look old-fashioned and virginal and sexy all at once...
...simple soldier, abused by his superiors and mocked by his fellows, suspects his mistress of infidelity and stabs her to death. The act is undeniably tragic, even fated, yet the soldier's motives remain unclear. Is the murder an act of passion, the frenzy of a man going mad, or an understandable reaction to a social degradation that has become unbearable...
...traditional attitude toward female truckers. Some docking areas still have MEN ONLY signs, and many truck stops routinely refuse to let women truckers use the showers. Worse, says Gomez: "When you lose your job to some 18-year-old punk boy after ten years, it makes you real mad...
...committee "did not know there was going to be an acting master and was not asked to participate in the selection process. People may be mad about it," he added...
Actually, as a practical matter, Friedrich maintains all sorts of assumptions about madness. They are simply never consistent, more examples of his speculative incoherence. Mostly these assumptions consider that normal functioning in society and antiseptic personal well-being are signs of sanity: stray from these criteria, and you run the risk of being mad. In fact, one can easily be crazy according to Friedrich. It takes no eccentricity whatsoever. Apart from the obvious clinical and inveterate sorts of sickness most of us would call madness, Friedrich is constantly holding up types of behavior whose craziness is considerably less apparent. Among...