Word: waywardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That made the finals a case of the missile v. the computer, the Rocket's violent volleys against the subtle shotmaking of Rosewall. Pinking the sideline markers with precision, forcing Laver to weave back and forth across the green like a wayward Agena, Rosewall pulled off an upset, winding up with a straight set victory of 6-3, 6-3. "Just a shot here and there," he said in gentlemanly fashion. "Besides, Laver missed more than he usually does...
...girl who won't say no, blonde Sylvie is a mildly accomplished comedienne with two oddly spaced front teeth that give her a look of elfin corruption. On the screen, despite a paltry script, she twists her diminutive curves into every parent's nightmare vision of a wayward, irresistible, aggressively precocious teen...
...shrill, seriocomic strumpet is written and played in a manner guaranteed to subdue passion in any red-blooded youth. Most of the time, however, the characters in Leather Boys seem stronger than the pat fiction imposed upon them. In the hands of Director Furie and his exuberantly wayward cast, their lives unreel with a moment-to-moment immediacy that is funny, fascinating and human...
...Wayward Spirit. He was born in St. Louis in 1882 to German Jewish immigrant parents. As a freckled, gangling boy, he was unruly in school, argumentative at home, and neither his passive watchmaker father (whose nickname was "Silent" Swope) nor his bustling, matriarchal mother could ever really cope with him. His elder brother Gerard (later president of General Electric) took him in hand, tried to infuse a little discipline into this wayward spirit. Instead, Herbert strayed into journalism, then one of the more undisciplined professions, and eventually surfaced as a cub reporter for the New York Herald...
Emerson called him "the greatest writer who ever lived." Claudel considered him a "great solemn ass." Jung pronounced him "a prophet." Evelyn Waugh dismissed him as a "wayward dabbler in philosophy." Valery said he was "one of the luckiest throws that fate has ever allowed the human race to make...