Word: wantonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tribulations in this academic community go far beyond publish or perish. There is the oh-so-smooth college president who is scheming to become a political bigwig. There is the cuckolded football coach whose wanton wife is exchanging signals with the star quarterback. There is the ogreish dean who keeps his pristine daughter locked away in his gothic manse. Meanwhile, no one seems to be paying much attention to books, lectures, homework or grades. That is because Alden University exists only in a mythical grove called Soapland and in the mind of a woman who creates worlds that flicker...
Inspiration is abundant (though not always cheap) at the Thomas More book shop in Holyoke Center which features religious works But if your tastes are more wanton you'll be happier in the basement of 99 Mt Auburn where the Million Year Picnic stacks show off superheroes not the supernatural comic books and the their lore...
...wonderful Islanders and their wanton goalie...
...made a pact with us. We could be as imaginative and exploratory as we wanted-black-and-white newsreel style for 'The Interview,' surrealist in 'Dreams,' shooting in actual time or covering a whole year in one episode-because they knew we would never be wanton with them." From Morgan, a veteran of eight TV series: "M*A*S*H was about helping people." From Stiers: "There was always laughter on the set. Maybe that reflected our sense of freedom and accomplishment." From Christopher, whose Father Mulcahy was the perpetual supporting player: "What...
Here, he is largely concerned with Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury set that assemblage of brains and beauty whose wanton mores were matched only by their wicked tongues. Take for example passing conversations about Vivienne Haigh-Wood, the first wife whom T.S. Eliot left in 1933 after an unhappy marriage of 18 years. "None of the poet's associates appears to have known her well," Quennell observes, noting that Bertrand Russell "alleged once to have seduced her," then told a friend that she was, after all, "not so bad-light, a little vulgar, adventurous, full of life." Aldous Huxley...