Word: wantonness
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...Cabaret is a gaping boy tourist with a typewriter. In the Isherwood-Van Druten versions, Sally Bowles focused the disorder around her in personal disorientation, sex-sipped sorrow, pleasure-bent pain. The part is beyond the technique and temperament of Jill Haworth. Sally is a mixture of waif and wanton, gin and gallantry; Actress Haworth is a tin-tongued ingenue...
While there could be no excuse for such wanton rampaging, hardly anyone denies that the students have much to be angry about. Facilities are limited and crowded. Underpaid professors are frequently careless and incompetent. Academic standards are often pitifully low. Worst of all, because of India's struggling economy, students despair of getting decent jobs once they graduate. It is the more urgent problem of trying to build the economy that prevents the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from building new educational facilities. Mrs. Gandhi has taken a conciliatory attitude toward the students-which many Indians feel will...
...Powell pal whose Akron district has a heavily Negro vote. Ayres, who may some day succeed Powell, was worried that the chairmanship itself would be weakened by clipping Powell's wings. But the rules changes adopted last week should strengthen the committee's hand by eliminating the wanton delays that have often kept important legislation in the pigeonhole...
...phosphate nutrients, the baby food of algae and plankton. Gingerly tugging the shore line at first, these willowy green growths are the stuff that giant, billowing swamps are later made of. After a few centuries or a millennium, a meadow sits where a lake once sparkled. In his wanton, willful way, man can speed up this process to mere decades...
...medical fanatic who puts him on a diet of nothing but peas and exhibits him to his students, an experiment no less dehumanizing for being silly. Woyzeck's firmest hold on life is a woman (Elisabeth Orth) who has borne his child out of wedlock. More sensualist than wanton, she betrays him with a dashing drum major, and the crazed Woyzeck, like a conscript Othello, stabs his flyblown wench to death...