Word: madding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opposition, though often eloquent, is divided, dispirited and lacking the fiery leadership of someone like Lord Chatham. (Now 67, ill and half mad, he rarely even visits Westminster.) The merchants and manufacturers who depended on the ?4 million American trade were earlier among the most influential opponents of the war, but so far the hostilities have done relatively little harm, since British businessmen have found new customers in Russia, Spain and Italy for Birmingham steel, Manchester cotton and Yorkshire woolens. They seem largely unaware of Whig estimates that the fighting will cost roughly ?10 million a year (with the national...
Even more elaborate headdresses are preferred for evening wear. Among this season's most popular styles are the "drowned chicken," "chest of drawers," "mad dog" and "sportsman in the bush." Topical motifs are especially prized; one called "a I'inoculation "hails the controversial new treatment for the small pox. In an effort to reconcile propriety with fashion, a widow will occasionally sport a model of her dead husband's tomb upon her head...
...cadenzas of the Italian stage. Writes Britain's Charles Burney, author of the erudite new General history of Music: "The chevalier Gluck is simplifying music . . . He tries all he can to keep his music chaste." Retorts popular Librettist Pietro Metastasio: Gluck is a composer of "surprising fire, but mad...
According to one Harvard administrator, the oil crisis and the resultant world redistribution of income caused a mad dash of American university presidents over to the Persian Gulf in search of grant money; presidents were often nonplussed to run into several of their colleagues at once in the lobby of the Riyadh Hilton. But one president nobody ever ran into over there was President Bok. He didn't have to go; they came...
...Pound's attempts to collaborate with the Fascists on the Ente Italiano Audizione Radiofoniche (EIAR), the statecontrolled radio-broadcasting agency, were at first rejected. The Fascisti thought he might be sending a code even after he began broadcasting. Heymann has turned up evidence that some even thought Pound was mad: "There is no doubt in my mind that Ezra Pound is insane!" wrote the manager of the National Institute of Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. Heymann shows that even as early as 1935 II Duce's office had criticized a plan devised by Pound as "eccentric" and "conceived...