Word: madman
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...begun in a sense by one madman, John Brown, and ended by another, John Wilkes Booth, as Foote says. At any rate, it introduced modern America. Perhaps it was a sardonic premonition that after Lee and Grant met at Appomattox, souvenir hunters wrecked the house where the surrender was signed...
...audience, frightens the women, describes instead the physiology of rape in such heated detail that tremblings because of the shots are replaced with giggles. He asks for a volunteer from the audience and proceeds to use her as what might be called a rape object. He is rather a madman...
There was relief, too, because the withdrawal reduced the possibility that some madman might attempt a third Kennedy assassination. By coincidence, word leaked out last week that both the Boston police and Secret Service had been warned of a plot to kidnap either of the two Robert Kennedy sons attending Harvard. At President Ford's direction, they were temporarily placed under Secret Service protection; only President Kennedy's 13-year-old son legally qualifies for such surveillance...
KISSINGER: The CIA had nothing to do with the coup to the best of my knowledge and belief, and I only put in that qualification in case some madman appears down there who without instructions talked to somebody. I have absolutely no reason to suppose it. [Deleted...
...almost unbearably maddened bitterness but that these legal raps were boring. The pressures of official harassment, massive quantities of speed and junk, and his own psychoses and self-absorption squeezed the living juices out of Lenny Bruce. He lost his audience and most of his friends. Then the madman died...