Word: madmen
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...week by Punch. "Do we, the heirs of Nelson and Wellington, really want obedient, heel-clicking Teutonic plumbers from Essen to come here and louse up centuries of history with their ridiculous passion for efficiency?" the magazine demanded. "Do we want evil-smelling bus drivers from Lyons charging like madmen down the wrong side of Kensington High Street? Should we allow the Italians to turn us all into neurotic, vino-swigging worshippers of saints none of us has ever heard of? What is at stake is THE BRITISH WAY OF LIFE...
...Crimson madmen fought all the way, but were simply outmanned by the formidable Princetonians. "The better team won the match," Harvard coach John Lee said. "They'll definitely win the Ivy League," he added...
...disgusted Arab diplomat once noted that few nations can match Iraq at staging "fiestas of madmen dancing around corpses." In the 1958 revolution, they dismembered Premier Nuri as-Said's corpse. In 1963 they displayed the bullet-riddled body of President Abdul Karim Kassem on television. Last year they hanged eleven "Israeli spies" and mounted their bodies on ceremonial gallows in Baghdad's Liberation Square...
...Martian Mode In the psychotic mind, fact and fantasy mingle freely. The line between the real and the imagined easily blurs or disappears. Most madmen invent their own worlds. If the charges against Charles Manson, accused along with five members of his self-styled "family" of killing Sharon Tate and six other people, are true, Manson showed no powers of invention at all. In the weeks since his indictment, those connected with the case have discovered that he may have murdered by the book. The book is Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, an imaginative science...
THERE HAS been an everlasting sad waste of energy in wrongly viewing twelve-tone music as satanic chaos perpetrated by diabolic madmen solely toward the death of music. It is true that the danger of Schoenberg's techniques is their elegant simplicity. In the hands of a master they can be a revelatory means to expression, while in the grip of an ordinary musical merchant they can depreciate into rococo pyrotechnics, vapid and uncommunicative. The calumny heaped upon Schoenberg is disgraceful. He sought not to create "modern" music but to allow music to speak her feelings in the modern...