Word: madnesses
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...Fischer is the poster boy for the mad chess genius, a species with a pedigree going back at least to Paul Morphy, who after his triumphal 1858-59 tour of Europe returned to the U.S., abruptly quit the game and is said to have wandered the streets of New Orleans talking to himself. Others have verged more on the edge of eccentricity. The great Wilhelm Steinitz claimed to have played against God, given him an extra pawn and won. Neither player left a record of the game...
...sure I like this line of reasoning because it means that I, who have spent countless hours in public parks, chess clubs and my library at home fighting for my (king's) life, would be stark raving mad by now. I suspect that I am not. I like to tell myself that I am in pretty sane company. The game certainly has its pantheon of upstanding citizens. While ambassador to France, Benjamin Franklin preferred to eschew the Paris opera for chess at the Caf? de la R?gence. (Excellent choice.) Napoleon played, although to judge by one of his games...
...find a single used copy selling for $300. "I could buy it for my children, but I couldn't let them hold it," she says. So Morgan founded Purple House Press and set about acquiring the rights to republish out-of-print children's classics, such as the Mad Scientists' Clubseries. Mr. Pine's Purple House was released in the fall of 2000, along with two other books, and by June 2003, the company was doing well enough for her husband to quit his job and for the whole family to move from Texas to their dream home...
...leaders capitalized on their personal connections and infectious personalities. “When we started, it was about convincing people to do something that no one’s doing. Part of that happening was that some of us were mad crazy and had big mouths, being like ‘Yo, BMF is hot, kid!’ even when it wasn’t that hot,” Ashong says...
Gingrich, formerly known for being “Mad as Hell,” as a 1994 Time magazine cover put it, started his speech by outlining the five greatest challenges he sees on the horizon for the country: national security, the failure of math and science education, the impending growth of China and India, an aging population, and defining an American civic culture...