Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Creeping Splits. Previews, Inc.'s effort has conservationists, swamp lovers, hunters and bird watchers so mad they could swat a lepidoptera. They are lyric in their descriptions of the Great Dismal Swamp as a primeval forest of peat bog, cypress and juniper trees, of diaphanous curtains of Spanish moss, of copperhead and rattlesnake, bear, deer and mink, and of quicksand. The swamp once covered 1,500 sq. mi. But modern civilization's bulldozers have cut it down to some 600 sq. mi. Now even to the Great Dismal Swamp comes the forward tread of split-levelism...
Well, it does seem a pity. The Great Dismal Swamp story has a shuddery, compelling quality. Thomas Moore, after seeing the swamp's saucer-shaped Lake Drummond, wrote a ballad about a young man who went mad over the death of his beloved...
...character regularly had her face pushed down onto a red-hot stove, where it sizzled deliciously. In a great favorite called The Laboratory of Hallucinations, a surgeon operated on the brain of his wife's lover, pinching here, clamping there, until he had turned the fellow utterly mad. The patient then got up off the table and drove a chisel through the doctor's forehead. Audiences used to faint, shriek, and vomit in the alley outside the theater. One night the house doctor was summoned to the aid of a fallen customer, but the doctor himself had collapsed...
They scattered--they ran--like mad--& I felt relieved--the tension was relieved...
Silent Partners. The National-Zeitung got its story from a former Trujillo official, who, having helped the Trujillos get the money out. was mad at not being cut in. The paper sat on the story for three weeks while it checked out the documents he produced to back up his story. Then the National-Zeitung published its fascinating account of how the Trujillos got their money out of the country in the months following the dictator's death...