Word: madmen
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...qualify for prosecution under Soviet law, are imprisoned with genuinely sick people. For example, Vladimir Vysotsky, a popular balladeer, has composed a song called The Psychiatric Lyric. He sings of the silent, incurable lunatics who stare at the terrified political prisoner as he lies in the ward. "They are madmen of all kinds, quiet ones, dirty ones-starved and beaten as part of their cure. If only Dostoevsky, in his House of the Dead, could describe them as they stand, beating their heads against the wall." The song ends...
...hysteria?and winds back down again, without missing a moan. On Yos-sarian's tortured face is a look of applied sanity that befits only saints and madmen. He walks through a closed system to which everyone but the dreamer...
...hours, the American Revolution was resuscitated not so much by brilliant military strategy as by brilliant words-those of Tom Paine in the "times that try men's souls." Even less persuasive and more recondite words can have an impact that dramatic acts do not. Wrote Lord Keynes: "Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas...
...story of 19th century Naturalist Verplanck Colvin who gave his life struggling to create what eventually became Adirondack State Park. The story-and this book-are a reminder that while Americans were busy getting and spending, much of the country was preserved for them by fond zealots and near madmen...
There is no chance of a Crimson victory at the Easterns-the highest Harvard finish to date was seventh in 1967-but Harvard coach John Lee hopes that the madmen can do better than last year, when they wound up ninth in a field...