Word: wantonness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hawk-self wrestled with his dove-self. The hawk-self feared communist expansion and thus supported the original premise of the conflict ("The original American policy in Vietnam was far easier to understand than the present one"--December 1, 1965 column). But the dove-self saw the wanton destruction of human lives ("How many more men and planes can we send there without turning the war into an American war and destroying the country we are trying to save?"--same column...
THAT THAT is is, "pontificates the Clown, for such is the wisdom the inhabitants of Illyria wish to hear as they enwrap themselves with madness and wonders in Winthrop House's Christmas production of Twelfth Night. Words grow wanton and fools wise before the play untangles their deceits and leaves us with the feeling that whatever...
...vice president, and six other members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) introduced to the AAAS governing council an unprecedented "emergency motion" for a strong condemnation of the continued United States involvement in the war and the application of American science and technology to the "wanton destruction of man and environment." The resolution was passed, 80-41, in a highly unusual public intrusion of politics into science...
...Elena leaves her furniture and furs to take responsiblity for her own life. But on the book's last page she fecklessly returns to Morrissey, just as he seems to have got clear of their disastrous affair and adjusted himself to his marriage. Is she a temptress, a wanton driven by forces she cannot control? Or does her resolve to lead her own life mean that she will finally not harm Morrissey? The depressing thing is that the preceding 561 pages-filled with incident, example, internal monologue, psychological speculation-do not furnish a clue...
...previous novels, the story takes off from the workaday world in search of the ineffable. The familiar trappings of Wright's baroque realism turn up: the taste of switch grass and cord grass, the loom of grain elevators, the feel of a kitten dropped by wanton boys into a country-school privy. But the subject is myth. Old, unbelieving, literal-minded Floyd Warner takes on immortal longings. Having defied common sense by taking a herd of sheep and a wife to the banks of the Pecos where God intended neither species to live, having defied humanity by his whole...