Word: madding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to get mad--I mean really, really psyched in order to break out of this," captain Wood asserted. "It's a matter of not talking about it anymore--we just have...
...imagination that it overwhelms the reader. Like Tolkien's other books, The Silmarillion presents a doomed but heroic view of creation that may be one of the reasons why a generation growing up on the thin gruel of tele vision drama, and the beardless cynicism of Mad magazine, first found J.R.R. Tol kien so rich and wonderful. Says proud Fëanor, explaining why he will not give up to the Valar the jewels he worked so hard to craft: "For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only...
...bothering you, miss? You should come inside and get warm. You can call a taxi from the station." The good guy is all concern. And you follow him inside to the coffee and doughnuts. That man has bothered you. Not the way the good guys think, just made you mad and miserable and aching-bitter as bones that never have a dry spot to rest on Sunday nights. But you and the good guys are on the same side, really. And with them you don't get confronted by anything that makes you uncomfortable. So maybe you'd better wait...
There would perhaps be room for complacency in all this if the policy accompanying such awesome weaponry were that of use only as a last resort or at least that of mutual assured destruction (MAD), thereby insuring what General Douglas MacArthur said of nuclear war, that any conflict at all would be a form of "double suicide...
YALE at COLUMBIA--Oooooh, are they mad in New Haven. They're steaming, in fact. No longer undefeated, in fourth place, and wasn't this supposed to be the big year? Well, it still might be, and today, Columbia will get punished for Dartmouth's indiscretion. Yale 34, Columbia...