Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ghettos all over the country if we were not driven by some nameless fear that has nothing to do with Negroes. We would never victimize, as we do, children whose only crime is color, and keep them, as we put it, in their place. We wouldn't drive Negroes mad as we do by accepting them in ballparks, and on concert stages, but not in our homes, and not in our neighborhoods, and not in our churches...
...appears, and Marian is conveyed to a gloomy, candlelit stone pile inhabited by a coven of skulkers who might have been left over from an Orson Welles production of Wuthering Heights. There is the hulking, rock-silent retainer, Scottow, a homosexual. There is the mad hag, Violet Evercreech. And there is the young mistress of the manor, Hannah Crean-Smith. It develops that there are no children for Marian to oversee; she has been hired, rather slyly, to read La Princesse de Cléves to Hannah. And what is wrong with Hannah? She is a prisoner, that...
...Henry cannot smother all, not a capable Glendower (Nick Delbanco) or a roaring mad Scots fighter (Robert Rose as Douglas), and absolutely not the visual effect of a production staged with a Prussian precision of technical detail. Indeed, the only serious technical flaw is in the trying matter of accents in an American production: the lead characters ought to agree on a degree of approximation to the Queen's English and on a pronunciation of Bolingbroke. Otherwise, the Loeb has poured its professional competence freely: there is much swordplay, adequately trained; Donald Soule's stolid set suits the play superbly...
...unmistakable on the street--a short, frosty-faired, ruddy-faced man, impeccably dressed and sporting a fresh cornflower in his buttonhole, swinging a walking stick, and traveling with a jaunty briskness. "I am not mad," he states categorically, "only eccentric...
...those who could not flee from the cities "life was an unrelieved nightmare," Langer stated. "You could hear the rumble of coffin carts all day long; parents deserted their children and people went mad with terror...