Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot say the same for the witnesses and their lawyers. They injected into the proceedings enough sound and fury to turn an honest investigation into a mad, futile carnival. These unthinking exhibitionists have crippled the cause they so hotly championed. So costumed Jerry Rubin, an absurd symbol of the entire childish display, waved his cocked hat and bellowed, "I object! I object!" I hope he doesn't mind if his countrymen borrow this cry to voice their opposition to his and his fellows' truly un-American antics...
...Jewish South African, I realize that, were it not for his preoccupation with the Bantu, he would still be openly and violently antiSemitic. He frightens me because, ostrichlike, he refuses to see that apartheid can never work. He frightens me because he cannot stand criticism, and because in his mad efforts to eliminate opposition he creates the very conditions (ripe for revolution) that he seeks to destroy...
...MAD SHOW offers some diverting bits of comedy and occasional moments of humor, but in general its mood is too mild to live up to the title...
Meanwhile, Billy's mortal remains lie in a cold-storage receiving vault at the cemetery. Asked what Billy would make of it all, a Broadway friend said: "He'd be damned mad at first, but then he'd see the irony of it; and when he realized that his name was in the papers, it would be just fine with...
...over. After drunken humiliations in which he is literally stripped by his wife and two mistresses, he is left to sleep alone. He opens the letter that should have promised innocence. It proposes-and in the crudest way-just some more sex. There is no hope. The poet goes mad. Innocence, which Critic Fiedler, in Love and Death in the American Novel, suggests is the basic American obsession, is just...