Word: madman
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...fierce" in the libretto's psychological case history of a sadistic Suffolk fisherman (adapted from a 19th-Century poem by George Crabbe). The boyish, mild-looking composer (when he was eight he wrote an angry song to be sung by God) indignantly denied that his tale of a madman was gloomy: "It is the struggle of the individual against the masses ... a subject very close to my heart...
This was the Berlin that every krasno-armeyets (Red Army man) had dreamed of entering in triumph. But in his wildest dream none could have imagined these vignettes etched by a madman. Once the Red storm had passed and the German shells had run out of range, waiters from a Bierstube stood in the rubble with foaming steins, smiling tentatively, offering them to the Russians, going through the motions of tasting the brew, as if to say: "See, it is not poisoned...
...Most of our cases now are the results of mine explosions. They are certainly the most treacherous thing that any madman ever conceived. They do such extensive, tragic damage-the kind we can't do very much about. How these boys can take it the way they do is beyond...
...first test (a resolution to make the bill in order) by ten votes (202-to-192). The anti-Wallace men tried again: a motion to recommit the bill. It was beaten by eight votes (204-to-196), and the opposition folded. House Republicans, who regard Wallace as an economic madman or worse, and Southern Democrats, who feel the same way, then joined the pro-Wallace-men. The George bill was passed...
...ends soon, it will be because the Germans never dreamed that General Eisenhower could be such a madman. By last week he had landed well over 1,000,000 men on the Continent (others had landed in southern France, dropped by parachute in The Netherlands), but he still, apparently, had only one good usable port-some 500 miles behind his front-through which to supply his armies...