Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First he got mad at Arkansas Democrat John McClellan's Senate Subcommittee on Investigations. The group was looking into McNamara's choice of General Dynamics Corp. for a $6 billion-plus contract to build a new fighter aircraft, the TFX, for the Air Force and the Navy. Washington's Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson had called Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric to explain that the voters back home-who will get a crack at Jackson next year-expected an investigation, since Seattle-based Boeing Airplane had lost the contract. But Jackson said the probe would be brief...
...idea is that children bought baby alligators for pets, and when they got bored with them, they flushed them into the sewers. The myth is part of this likable, mad and unfathomable first novel. Not an integral part; Author Pynchon has taken great pains to ensure that his book has none of these. The novel is built on the plan of the expanding universe or of one of those whirling platforms at amusement parks; the reader starts at the center, and, as the narration picks up speed, slides helplessly toward infinity, while his sanity and his umbrella drift away...
Couples recline, neuroses entwine, and Benny, friendly, polite and stupid, gets drunk and inadvertently invents the mad fad of yo-yoing. To yoyo, one gets piggy-drunk, falls asleep in the subway, and rides back and forth all night. The yo-yo who makes the most trips is champion, and the crosstown shuttle does not count...
...scene of Cassandra's clairvoyance and departure to death ever been equalled? If so, where? Ophelia's mad scene is, by comparison, that of a namby-pamby nitwit. To the great credit of Mr. Arunah Brady be it said that he was able to convey much of its pity and terror. This scene has everything. She is not mad; on the contrary, she is the one person sane. Seeress, she can see the crimes already wreaked under that roof, and foresee the two about to follow, the murder of Agamemnon and of herself. Her speeches begin with little more than...
...beginning of time. I neither invent another world that isn't there, nor do I go whining to my mother because the world is harder and nastier than I expected. I do my best to be harder and nastier than anybody else." While other Nazis have appeared "mad, bureaucratic or spineless" to Steinbaum, the marshal seems "gross, humorous, shrewd, generous and free...