Word: madmanned
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...friend Tom, a fellow Mather orphan, arrived at his six-man quaint to find all the bedrooms padlocked and reserved with signs for "Dave and Betsy." "Steve and Joanne," "Mona and The Madman," "Ken," and "Crazy Al." The living room was filled to chest level with barbells, broken furniture, and several Persian rugs and boxes of knickknacks Ken had culled from a couple of profitable years on the Lampoon business board...
...maintain that it is dangerous to show too much to people who do not know what they are looking at. I think that a man who is sane as long as he looks at the world through his own eyes is very likely to become a dangerous madman if he takes to looking at the world through telescopes and microscopes...
...Dryden (at the age of twelve, Pope visited Will's Coffee House to gaze at him) summed the matter up: "Great wits are sure to madness near allied/And thin partitions do their bounds divide." Pope was only 14 when an acquaintance forecast that he "will either be a madman or make a very great poet." He lived in what his own age called "a phrenzy...
Under the direction of Robert Edgar, Dunster House has put together an old production of The Imaginary Invalid. For one thing, several of the actors--especially Roy Goldfinger as Argan--play their roles in an effeminate way. Moliere's Argan, bluntly put, is a madman. When asked why he persists in standing in the way of his daughter's love, he replies, "Because I'm king of my own castle and I do what I think fit." On stage his source of strength should be this single-minded devotion to his role as the father of the family...
...everywhere there is a feeling of indignation and surprise that the Ibos had actually seceded and started a dirty civil war. It was irrational. It must have been the work of a madman, many Nigerians feel, and they blame Ojukwu. The press often compares him to Hitler...