Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begins, Harry is up on the railing of the bridge, teetering and ready to jump. When his old friend walks up to him and says, "Is it? -No! Harry Berlin! . . . How've you been doing, Harry?" the emphatic incongruity of the moment touches off a wave of mad laughter. The tone of the play has been perfectly...
...with man-eating ants in his pants, shirking every obligation, going to wild parties in Denver, New York, San Francisco, having uninhibited sex with beautiful girls, drinking in jazz in crowded joints, getting high on pot, engaging in intense discussions about God, about Love, about Salvation, all in a mad, passionate grab to dig everything and everybody. If Moriarty goes fast enough (and here's Kerouac's big clue-in coming up), if Moriarty's experiences are plentiful and violent enough, "the great ultimate secret will be laid bare...
With French frugality, the judges will take several weeks to decide whether Bousgarbiès' injury is worth 1 franc. Appeals may drag on for a year. Despite the general levity, though, Bousgarbiès has received hundreds of letters from French patriots who seem just as mad as Americans would be at a TV bike race between Abe Lincoln and Jeff Davis...
This virile, whimsical odyssey rises to a not-quite-credible climax at the Mexican hideout of Dixie Renegade Edmond O'Brien. It is two years since Appomattox, but O'Brien, nursing a mad dream that he will resume the Civil War, has established himself in a sort of alfresco plantation house as commander in chief of 1,000 or more Apache Confederate troops. Crazy, sure. But if Rio Conchos is no High Noon, it is a tough-minded little western that cuts the television competition down to size. It makes most of the saddlesoap operas that jockey...
...time her own choice, the wife of a standard-model civil servant and the mother of a conventional child. Although she has "views"-she disbelieves vaguely in the color bar-she is accepted placidly by colonial suburbia. Then she discovers that she feels as if she were going mad. Older wives smile kindly and say, Yes, that's right, everyone feels that...