Word: madman
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...elevates the stuff of soap opera to a medieval morality tale. The parallels between Arthurian chivalry, Southern gentility and Christian militancy are in fact a single strand in Percy's fabric. He is a severely and sincerely Christian novelist who may speak from the fictional mouth of a potential madman to acknowledge the difference between a Cassandra and a crank...
Appeasing a Madman...
...dangerous to restrain First Amendment liberties. The chance of occasional excesses is not too heavy a price to pay for assurance of liberty." Said New York Daily News Editor Michael O'Neill: "We must weigh one value, of a fully informed public, against another, the risk of some madman imitating what he has seen or read. The first enormously outweighs the second...
...example he cited the American belief that assassination attempts against foreign leaders are conducted by highly organized political groups but that attempts on the life of an American president are always the work of a lone madman...
...rolled off the car and onto a cold snow bank amidst a stampede of legs. Fending them off he raced back to his room to change lenses. His roommates didn't recognize the trembling madman who foamed at the mouth with alphabet soup. Ravaging the room he flew out the door, down the stairs, and outside as if possessed. His steps followed the parade...