going ape

Everybody’s going ape because who could have predicted that you need paper to make a paper chain?

“If you want to get your candidate Eisenhower into the White House by going ‘ape’ all the way during the last days of campaigning, then do it in a more journalistic and ethical manner,” the student wrote.

Two months earlier, in the Desert Sentinel of Desert Hot Springs, California, a high schooler named Jackie Darling wrote, “‘I hear that the new by-word is ‘I’m going gorilla’ instead of ‘I’m going ape.’

Now, this was a period of time when Americans were going ape for red zinfandel.

As recently as a couple weeks ago, with fans going ape over tidbits and new trailers for “The Force Awakens,” Lucas had still not seen the film.