Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley was hopping mad. Just the day before, midday Loop traffic had been snarled for four hours while 500 civil rights demonstrators marched on city hall and the nearby board of education building to protest a decision to keep School Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis on the job for another 17 months. Daley got Police Superintendent Orlando W. Wilson on the phone, told him: "Nothing like what happened yesterday will exist today." When the demonstrators showed up, cops arrested 252 men, women and children in what may well have been the opening round of a racially...
...away from the hearth. The loudest of the new emancipators is Betty Friedan, another suburban housewife and mother. Mrs. Friedan maintains in her bestselling broadside, The Feminine Mystique, that the college-educated woman who seeks fulfillment in domesticity will never find it, that the clever girl will either go mad in the kitchen or go forth from it, to market her brain in all those places where the men sell theirs...
Wyler gets results by demanding them-over and over and over again. Actors assigned to him describe the experience as "living in the torture chamber." Greer Garson tried to soften him up in advance by sending him a pair of velvet gloves. Bette Davis got so mad she walked off the set for a week. Olivia de Havilland all but heaved a suitcase at Wyler after he ordered the umpteenth take of the same scene; yet all these films were hits. "I've resisted the temptation of being a good fellow," says Wyler, 62. "I don't care...
British Defense Minister Denis Healey, for example, would dearly like to withdraw one-fifth of Britain's 53,000-man Army of the Rhine. Nearly everyone was mad at France for its recent announcement that it will not participate in next year's "Fallex" exercise to test the Alliance's communications. NATO's burning issue remains the quest for some form of nuclear sharing, whether Britain's ANF proposal, the U.S.-German MLF scheme or De Gaulle's NON! Above all, NATO is exercised over De Gaulle's threat to pull France...
Meaning in these stories is most often embodied in a common object charged with mysterious and terrible significance. In several of them a supernatural power is represented as a powerful animal. In Greenleaf, the story of an old woman obsessed by hate, a mad bull stands surrogate for divine vengeance-or perhaps for divine love? "The black, heavy shadow tossed its head several times and then bounded forward. Mrs. May remained perfectly still, not in fright, but in a freezing unbelief. She stared at the violent black streak bounding toward her as if she could not decide what his intention...