Word: madding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old bachelor, answered the knock. His two elderly spinster sisters watched warily in the background. George never lost his polite grin. "I think.'' he said after a few preliminary questions and answers. "I know why you fellows are here. You think I'm the Mad Bomber...
...this man mad?" asked State of Mind (a new publication by the Ciba pharmaceutical company) in connection with this case history...
Contrary to the judgment that would be given by most U.S. physicians, K. was not "mad" in the opinion of his fellows. He became one of the most respected members of his community-a leader in the practice of medicine. For K. is a shaman among the Yakut, a primitive tribe of fishermen and reindeer hunters in the arctic wastes of eastern Siberia. Moral drawn by State of Mind: one man's madness in one society is another's greatness in a different culture...
...Mad Bomber's letter contained more clues to his identity than police had unearthed in years. Among the disclosures: he had spent "most of my adult life in bed"; two of the bombs he had deposited last year had not yet been found; he named three former New York
...satire nor a comedy, though sometimes there is room for doubt, particularly when it comes to the episode about Edward's early service with an "infamous Major Kinryce." One day the unthinkable happens: Mrs. Kinryce tries to fire him. Edward "thought pityingly that she might be going mad. 'Excuse me, Madam, but you can't dismiss me. I only take notice from Major Kinryce.' Her cold eyes in her haggard face fixed him fearfully. 'I shot him just now with his old service pistol . . . You must go and fetch me a policeman...