Word: madding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Howard, Chicago Manager Al Lopez decided to let them fight it out in an intrasquad game. Howard won 2-1 and got the job; McLain was put on waivers and claimed by Detroit for a piddling $8,000, an indignity that triggered the terrible McLain temper. He still gets mad when he thinks about it: "Isn't that a hell of a way to make a decision ?on the basis of one ball game?" Denny was still fuming when he was called up from a farm club to pitch for Detroit in September 1963. In Tiger Stadium on Sept...
When it comes to love, Cohen can be both a romantic and a realist. At times he glorifies women as succoring goddesses. In Suzanne, published in the book as a poem, a half-mad woman in rags and feathers is melded with the Christ figure to express the perfect union of body and mind...
...birthday party thrown for Lyndon Johnson by the hippies in the Chicago Coliseum, they matched animalistic descriptions of the cops. Burroughs called them "vicious dogs," and asked: "Is there not a municipal ordinance requesting that vicious dogs be muzzled and controlled?" Genet thought a better description was "mad dogs, who for the past 150 years have done the same thing, with even greater brutality, to the blacks." Improving on even this literary eloquence, Southern found the "dog-cop image quite apt, but in my view there is also a salient strain of swine in the character of those who drove...
Unmolested and little heard from all week was another novelist-turned-journalist, Norman Mailer, who was in town for Harper's. At the Grant Park rally, Mailer explained his uncharacteristic silence. "I'm a little sick about all this and also a little mad, but I've got a deadline on a long piece and I'm not going to go out and march and get arrested. I just came here to salute...
...than 11,000 securities analysts strive constantly to uncover it. Investment-company managers, in particular, feel obliged to use whatever they learn to improve their handling of other people's money. Thus, some mutual funds were indignant at the SEC's charges. President Edward Merkle of the Mad ison Fund called them "ridiculous...