Word: madding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is so much more that is bad: the hastily-done "End of the World" cover story, the Mad-magazine style letters to the editor, the tiresome use of such self-contained witticisms as "It all began in the beginning...
...Jewish real estate mogul named Arthur Goldman (Pleasence). Goldman has a jigsaw-puzzle personality. He wants only a "kosher" staff around him, yet he indulges in acridly anti-Semitic remarks. With bewildering rapidity, his accented spray of words veers from the clever to the vulgar to the mad. In a sense, Goldman is the kind of Angst-ridden creature a very bright student might have constructed after making a close study of how Harold Pinter fashions his characters. Since Shaw acted the mentally disturbed older brother in Pinter's The Caretaker, the influence is scarcely surprising...
...balsa raft from Peru to Samoa, and in 1963-64 made a 10,000-mile solo voyage from Peru to Australia. Before his third and last unsuccessful attempt to reach England from America alone, he said: "The greatest challenge is to prevent the solitude from driving you so mad that you want to jump overboard...
...were on the way to Wembley once in the van. We wrote on a piece of paper 'Which way to Wembley.' We spoke in a foreign language and pointed to map of Wales. Everybody went mad putting us right.... I still feel an urge to do that but you can't. It would be Beatles Play Tricks. This Will Give You a Laugh...
...survey of the fifty states (see p.3) revealed that the main problem at this point is to persuade discouraged liberals not to "leave and let the old hacks do the party work for the next four years and then get mad when the hacks choose their man," according to a Philadelphia ward boss. But this is very much the Old Politics...