Word: wanton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inability to accept death as a part of life-in effect, to accept life. All four of them drive off to the mountains to rope some wild mustangs, which will be sold to a slaughterhouse and ground up for dog meat. Roslyn's horror at this apparently wanton destruction of life and Gay's refusal to see the horror of it collide to provide the picture's climax and conclusion...
...Hudson River. And they sound like it. They tell, in a strange meter, how loneLEE it is TO watch the lights BLINK off A-cross the riVER in bosTON when you have to GO back to YOUR room aLONE. Poetic "license" is one thing, even for a poet, but wanton distortion of the hillbilly mind is not justified even by money...
...early comedies and prologued the dark vision of the great tragedies. The second was Shakespeare's-embittered love affair with the unknown "dark lady of the sonnets." Biographers have found traces of this siren's raven hair, pitch-black eyes, jigging walk, panting breath and wanton ways in the characters of Ophelia, Cressida and Cleopatra. The third event was the arrest and imprisonment of Shakespeare's patron, the Earl of Southampton, for helping Essex plot against the Queen. In combination, these events seem to have left Shakespeare at times with a bleak view...