Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lodge wrote both for his courses in short-story writing and to satisfy his drive to do so. "I tried like mad to get them published, and I came quite close to getting one in the Atlantic Monthly once...
...cured"-and she stays behind. Her little nephew falls ill, and instead of being cared for by a doctor, the child is placed in the arms of the goddess. He dies. When her husband returns once more, determined to take her away, it is too late: she has gone mad...
Challenging the Challenger. Anatomically, and politically. Rhodes does seem to be in better shape than elliptical Democratic Governor Michael Di Salle, 54. So far Rhodes has succeeded in reversing the ordinary order of political candidacy, in which the incumbent stands calmly on his record and the challenger moves like mad, making all sorts of promises and-if nothing else works-just criticizing...
...very bright, and he is literally dumb. He seldom has a soul, but he has a heart of gold. People hoot and holler at him when he walks into a bistro-he smiles at them shyly. Children pin tails on the poor donkey-he never gets mad. But he longs to be a member of humanity, and one day he discovers the only place where he is accepted by other people: in a cemetery. After that, Gigot never misses a funeral. He stands at the graveside, shoulder to shoulder with the mourners, and weeps a hatful for the dear departed...
This missing sense of perspective has led Latin America to make of Cuba a serious issue as well. The mad preoccupation with the Socialist island, evident at the second Punta del Este conference, has speeded the polarization of Latin American political opinion and increased its ideological content. Simultaneously, it has increased the appeal of demagoguery on the left and the inclinations toward military government to restore order on the right...