Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yesterday I thought the concept of Harvard paternalism was an exageration and it did not bother me too much. Today, however, I am good and mad...
...GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by Joyce Carol Gates. In a season of female discontent, this heroine is a poor girl determined to make good, but fated to go mad. A naturalistic novel of considerable power...
...Father is a tyrannical martinet who stamps on the egos of his wife and children as if they were vermin. The eeriest sight of the evening was watching Patrick Magee's performance as the domineering parent: apparently no one told him that he was no longer playing the mad marquis in last season's Marat Sade...
Died. Prince Felix Youssoupoff, 80, gentlemanly assassin of Czarist Russia's "Mad Monk," Rasputin; of a stroke; in Paris. Heir to one of his nation's greatest fortunes (an estimated $350 million), Youssoupoff plotted with other noblemen in 1916 to murder Rasputin because of his hypnotic hold on the Czarina. As the Prince told it, he lured the holy man to his palace, where it took a combination of cyanide, five bullets and a bludgeoning to accomplish the deed. A refugee in France after the Revolution, Youssoupoff fought several court battles over its dramatization. Most recently he lost...
...GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by Joyce Carol Gates. This is the season for female discontent: Joyce Carol Gates joins Philip Roth (When She Was Good) in portraying a poor girl determined to make good, but fated to go mad. A naturalistic, Dreiserian novel of considerable power...