Word: maddened
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...Leone ADJ Franklin, Mass. 16 Rick Patton FS Mendham, N.J. 17 Patrick Coyne SE Pittsburgh, Pa. 18 K.C. Smith ADJ Deerfield, Mass. 19 Kevin Mohan ADJ Milford, Mass. 20 Chuck Shirey SE Waterloo, Iowa 21 Dean Givas FB Sacramento, Calif. 21 Tim Manges WB Fort Wayne, Ind. 22 Mike Madden WB Pleasanton, Calif. 23 Tom McMillin SE Glendale, Calif. 24 Lee Oldenburg CB Acton, Mass. 25 Joel Seay SE Fountain Valley, Calif. 26 Al Fletcher DB Waterford, Conn. 27 Brian Bergstrom CB Swedesburg, Iowa 28 Paul Arnett K Atlanta, Ga. 28 Bill Hyland FS Foxboro, Mass. 29 Joe Connolly...
...that. But I had usually been able to picture myself as not wholly un-macho. I could stand up for my friends...I tried to hold my own. Yet now, each time my mind was clear enough to bring forth a new idea, panic soiled me. Not surprisingly. Madden gets from his childhood not a unified approach to life but rather a set of sharp reactions by which he decides whom to worship and whom to despise...
...PERHAPS the greatest of the novel's many ironies that every character, not just Tim, experiences the world as a hateful siege of contrary elements. And though Tim can see this in the other characters, the perception does not help him. Mailer conveys this best when Madden describes a sleazy friend and would-be rival of his in Provincetown...
...Madden and Nissen apprehend the world not simply or sympathetically but indirectly through a theory of hierarchical oppositions. Other, like-minded characters in the novel agree that it's okay to be poor or to be a pervert so as long as one is genuinely a reverse snob and can believe that being at the bottom of "the ladder" is just as good as being at the top. Of course, Mailer's characters cannot accept any such proposition for long: the inevitable resurgence of desire--for status, normalcy, wealth, or what-not-cancels the values of the day before...
...Madden finds a plastic bag containing, to his horror, a blond and severed head. Madden lacks the nerve, at this point, to identify the remains...