Word: madmanned
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...life as clear and wary as that of a Norman peasant eating the good side of a wormy apple. De Maupassant was proud as a boy of his feats of strength, he grew up to be an industrious lover of women, and he died, a syphilitic madman, at the age of 43. He was a great writer...
...outward appearances, the owner of Manhattan's Artists' Gallery was behaving last week like the Madman Muntz of the art dealers' world. On the walls of his Lexington Avenue walkup were hanging drawings by 204 artists. Side by side with relative unknowns were works by such top U.S. moderns as Lyonel Feininger, William Baziotes, William Cropper, Philip Evergood and Josef Albers worth up to $250. Each drawing was marked at a flat $25. The only hitch: on none of the drawings was the artist's signature visible, and the gallery refused to say who had drawn...
...indifferent or downright hostile London newsmen, Banker Schacht had glib answers for questions. His estimate of West Germany's booming postwar recovery? "When you start from zero, all progress seems imposing." His main recollection of Der Führer? Replied he: "Hitler was a betrayer and a madman, but he was a genius, as so many criminals are." Then the visitor registered pained indignation. "The moment I discovered that [madness]," said Hjalmar Schacht, a Nazi minister without portfolio until 1943, "I separated from him and worked against him. That was in 1938-before the war-and I did that...
...himself with intolerable clarity. After one three-day binge he groaned to a friend: "To be able to tear off my flesh, to get rid of this awful, horrifying skin we have . . ." He once wrote, melodramatically but perhaps not inaccurately: "I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval . . ." In the poems that will remain long after the last alcoholic insult to that skin he loathed, there are many victories for the angelic of the three Dylan Thomases...
...years, the only major modification of the M'Naghten rule was the addition of the idea that a man might be driven to crime by an "irresistible impulse." But that did not satisfy psychiatrists either: a crime might be coolly prepared and still be the act of a madman. In fact, what has kept psychiatry and the law at loggerheads is the lawyers' attempt to force the psychiatrists to testify in legal terms (insanity is a legal, not a medical concept), while the psychiatrists have tried to force the lawyers to argue in the complex, changing terms...