Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York is vast, it is tiny as well more provincial than Muncie, Indiana. Stop in one of 3000-plus neighborhood churches some Sunday, and feel the Mad. Ave. tempo melt away. New York is the town where a barber, when you ask for a shave, will tell you that you need a haircut; where a million people dwell within a 3-block radius--smaller than a midwestern village, yet containing all commodities (drugstore, bar, movie, etc.) necessary for life. Some get the jitters, or get lost, one block beyond that circumscribed universe. Others never leave...
...nuns and incurred further rebel wrath by continuing to celebrate Mass and singing hymns-more bad dawa as far as the Simbas were concerned. When the priests tried to escape from a rebel truck, three were killed on the spot. The fourth survived by playing dead, but was driven mad by the experience. Carried into Leopoldville last week in a planeload of survivors, he kept muttering: "I must go back to join the cadavers...
Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, by William Hanley, encourages three characters, two men and a woman, to tell the audience all about their operations. They discuss not physical but psychic scars-traumatic surgery performed by that mad cruel doctor, life...
...Kazantzakis knew that progress is often ushered in by violence. But the 1947-49 Greek civil war seemed to him beyond all reason. "The criminals have cut Greece in two, as if she were not alive," cries the priest-hero of his last novel. "And each piece has gone mad and wants to eat the other. I stand alone, deserted, and no matter whose corpse I see, my heart aches; because I see a part of Greece rotting." Kazantzakis' The Fratricides is a frantic, sometimes bombastic book, more sermon than novel, written, as it were...
Reputed to be the center of winter operations for the jet set, Sugarbush is a whirl of impromptu private parties and socializing. And across the river, Mad River Glen offers five full miles of expert rated slopes alone--which are not recommended for the cocky beginner who feels he is "ready...