Word: madding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes walked out en masse, soon to be followed by Imperiale and his white posse. "I'm mad tonight," he said. "But our philosophy is law and order." Then, with mufflers rumbling, the Jungle Cruisers tore off on patrol. Irresponsible Negroes as well as whites have begun to arm themselves and distribute hate pamphlets ("The Wops Want War") in the ghetto. Moderates on both sides hope that the medical-school victory has not come too late...
...call "peasant philosophy"-Aguiar found city life incompatible with his principles. "I need a place with the healthy atmosphere of the interior," he explains. This is what he achieved by building his own company town and calling it City of God. He recalls: "They all said we were mad. The roads were so bad that when it rained hard our city became unreachable even by Jeep. We had no communications, no telephone." That was 15 years ago. When 40,000 people poured into town last week to celebrate the founding anniversary and jestful employees threw Aguiar into a swimming pool...
Prize & Praise. In the end, however, Allsop has to admit that economic necessity by no means explains why men take to the road. Within the hobo there usually lurked a slightly mad Huck Finn-a fellow with his own restless ideology. He was a tough, radical, reckless, sardonic character who was a hardbitten distant cousin to Walt ("I tramp a perpetual journey") Whitman...
...style is Beverly Hills baroque. Yet Condon's grotesque farce is often merely the truth as seen in the wobbles of an amusement-park mirror. The book, which drifted past most critics and customers recently without creating much of a stir, is not on a par with the mad master's Manchurian Candidate. But in its own way, it deserves a small place on the shelf that includes Nathanael West...