Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most ferocious piece in the show is a star-shaped sculpture of two winged demons riding a couple of monsters, one resembling a mad dog, the other a lunatic pig. It was inspired by a newspaper photo of a band of Southern harridans hissing and screaming epithets at Negro children entering a newly integrated school. The women were grouped in such a way as to suggest the positioning of the monsters' heads. The emotion of the scene was transformed into an explosion of claws and hoofs, of talon-shaped fingers and screeching beaks. It is a bristle of total...
This attitude has caused special problems this year because of new, more liberal social rules. Freshmen in particular have not been made properly aware of the need to act responsibly, and according to one dorm president, "they are using up their one o'clocks like mad, they ask for two and three o'clocks like water, and they have accumulated more penalties for infractions than any preceding freshman class...
...whimsically or fiercely, to abandon it at some point. Surely the thesis is for an undergraduate an extraordinary strain; thesis advisors and Senior Tutors will acknowledge that in more than occasional cases students not forced to finish it would not do so. (That they can finish it without going mad is clearly shown by the fact that they have done so.) Besides, there is more at stake for the large departments even than a stack of possibly excellent unwritten theses: the administrative problem involved in re-employing deserted tutors looks overwhelmingly more burdensome than the difficulties the Faculty earlier envisioned...
...history and makes a good many useful proposals; Zeckhauser gives a really impressive (despite its prose) summary of trade issues between the U.S. and Europe, difficult to do for a lay readership; and Nitze is after all the Horse's Mouth. Besides, Hoffmannesque detachment would probably drive them all mad, or, at best, prevent them from doing their jobs...
Presenting himself as proof that the universe is foul, Burroughs achieves the somewhat irrelevant honesty of hysteria as he writes of a malevolent world of users and pushers, of a mad conspiracy of spider-eyed manipulators who sell each other "adulterated shark repellent, cut antibiotics, condemned parachutes, stale antivenom, inactive serums and vaccines, leaking lifeboats." All pity is mockery ("Yes I know it all. The finance company is repossessing your wife's artificial kidney. They are evicting your grandmother from her iron lung"). All degradations are cherished: a coroner named Autopsy Ahmed makes a fortune peddling an Egyptian worm...