Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meantime, Fanny Hill broke sales records in Harvard Square bookstores; whether titillating themselves or enjoying its literary and historic merit, members of the Harvard community bought an unprecedented number of copies. The Coop reported at the time that Fanny was selling "like mad." Not until their supplies were exhausted did local bookstores note that the Attorney General's office had suggested they would be "virtually defenseless" if the book were finally banned and criminal proceedings were brought against them for selling...
...hell, the horror, the wonder, the sheer animal delight of it have drawn thousands of readers to a novel called Zorba the Greek, a mad magnificat to man composed by the late Nikos Kazantzakis. This translation of the book into an English-language film might easily have changed the author's hearty wine of life into cinematic sugar water. Instead, Director Michael Cacoyannis (Electra) has served it up in a grand uproarious Bacchanalian bash...
...horror; but the old man, though his heart cracks and his eyes weep blood, rises up stronger than ever from every disaster to dance the delirious unremitting dance of life. "Zorba!" the young man cries, "teach me to dance!" The old man rises up, his eyes alight. "You lack madness, my friend," Zorba says softly. "A man must be a little mad to cut the rope-and be free!" A little mad, the young man begins to dance...
...Cohen's explanation is that if a subject takes LSD under laboratory conditions with impersonal attending technicians, if he expects to go temporarily mad and if he gets no reassurance, a psychotic state is likely to occur. But in a more relaxed situation, with hopeful expectations of his own, the subject will probably have a ball. Dr. Cohen notes that this is true of other drugs: "From the same jug of whiskey come tears for one and laughter for another...
...investigation, the Republic is now in a position to report that J. Edgar Hoover does in fact exist and is in the best of health. What our investigators further turned up is the fact that Art Buchwald does not exist. He is a mythical person first thought up by MAD magazine...