Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bukovsky had to endure countless hours of propaganda "reindoctrination," while the police doctors argued about whether his dissident views qualified him as a schizophrenic or a psychopath. In the asylum he found some textbooks for the study of English. "You know," he confided, "English grammar is funny-a bit mad to us Russians-so why not study it in a prison madhouse...
Truckle to nurse him through his last days, the money-mad husband delivers his wife to the supposedly harmless...
...Russians, but it is the street gangs in America who frighten me. It's law-and-order and freedom from fear that allow a nation to survive, and I say no money for New York and other cities until they restore safety to the streets. I'm mad, sick at heart and disgusted with weak Government officials...
...kids are mad at the world," says Senior Class President Jim Kleker, whose family decided to move to Wyoming. "We're getting screwed and there's nothing we can do about it. Sometimes it makes you feel a little crazy." Adds Senior Candy Baldridge: "We just wonder why the people of this community made us sit home and rot. I feel like I've been gypped...
...October Light is steeped in melodrama. A trap set for Sally by James nearly kills her peacemaking niece. James almost kills himself in his pickup truck while returning from Merton's Hideaway, full of rage and beer. Retrospective suicides begin falling out of the family tree: James' mad Uncle Ira, James' tormented son Richard...