Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, Nationalist Nanking and Red Peiping had bargained and bickered over terms. Peiping's Red radio had spurned a new Nationalist petition for an "equal and honorable peace." "Mad and erroneous," it shouted at Nanking. "There is only one way to peace, and that is complete surrender...
Titled after the shore on which Viola and her brother Sebastian are shipwrecked in Twelfth Night, it was a story based on the blighted, bittersweet life of Charles Lamb and his mad sister, Mary. Among its characters: a laudanum-shaken Coleridge, a sobersided Hazlitt, and an opium-eating De Quincey, who, as visiting friends of the Lambs, studded the play with some witty quotes picked from their own works...
...operate with Congress," said a colleague. "Whenever a knotty one comes up, he slaps his knee and says: 'Senator, you're entirely right. You've hit the nail on the head.' Next thing you know, the whole room is full of Senators working like mad to help Paul Hoffman solve his problems...
When the University of Iowa's Wally Ris, a 195-lb. porpoise of a man, set out for the Olympic games last year, his father was mad: better his son should be painting the house in Chicago than off swimming in London. Even when Wally came home with the zoo-meter free-style championship, his dad, a Polish emigrant who speaks only a little English, balked at letting him go to Bermuda to swim again. He stuck a paintbrush in Wally's fin, and spoke one word of English forcibly: "Commence...
...that might have happened to Wickens, or Pickens, or Stickens that his biographers have obliterated him"), Shaw devotes most of Self Sketches to correcting "what had been overlooked or misunderstood."* Sample restatements: ¶ "I have not yet ascertained the truth about myself. For instance, how far am I mad, and how far sane? I do not know." ¶ "Aunt Ellen, though humpbacked, was not a midget...