Word: madman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...call some of these homes "asylums," and the people inside them "madmen." When occasionally, as in Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade, we are forced to enter an asylum, we see lunatics prancing, laughing, and shrieking. Frightened, we can still leave reassured, thinking, "So that's what a madman is like. Well, no one I know is quite like that. Thank...
That advice was hardly likely to console one Kalam Mia, who roamed through Chardarvesh village last week looking into the faces of 2,000 dead children in search of his ten-year-old son. He never found the boy. "And now," said a neighbor, "he raves like a madman, and in his eyes is an expression beyond words...
While most responses tended toward the feelings of despair and "we've been there before" weariness expressed above, a definite undercurrent of cynical anger was evident. There were numerous references to "that madman in the White House...
...Surgeons, who in his youth studied under Sir William Gull, physician to Queen Victoria. Another of Gull's patients, writes Stowell, was Jack the Ripper. Although Stowell refers to the killer as "S" throughout the article, he drops enough clues to leave little doubt as to the madman's identity...
Frank Champi was throwing the ball scrambling like a madman. Somehow, Gatto finally caught a touchdown pass in the corner of the end zone as time ran out. Champi had to do it again, and he did, as Varney grabbed the pass and it was done. One of the most incredible games of all time and, almost incidentally, a third Ivy championship...