Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILD DUCK. The APA Repertory Company touches off match flares of understanding in Henrik Ibsen's examination of the human havoc that can result from too ruthless a devotion to honesty, but its production, while accomplished, is a trifle too cozy to carry off the playwright's crueler intention: to drag everyone and everything into unrelenting light...
DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine. This scabrous recollection of a wretched Parisian childhood, first published in 1936, has become the schoolbook of black humorists from Genet to Bruce Jay Friedman. The new, unexpurgated translation is by Ralph Manheim. RAKOSSY, by Cecelia Holland. A wild fictional ride through 16th century Hungary in which Magyar does in Magyar until the Turkish invaders put a temporary end to it all at the battle of Mohacs...
...think that we can postpone what we are doing in the cities." Nevertheless, non-defense programs are in for what an Administration aide calls a "tough year." Said he: "We will move ahead on the major social programs, but it will mean firm, steady steps ahead-no wild expansion." Health, education and welfare activities are ticketed for an additional $1 billion, including $135 million for extension of Head Start, another $135 million for additional manpower training programs, plus added funds for the just-launched Demonstration Cities program...
...Beerbohm thought that she shed an aura of lurid supernaturalness. Dumas the elder described her voice as "a spring that ripples and leaps over golden pebbles." One awed critic wrote that watching her was as fascinating as watching a wild animal in a cage. She herself apparently felt like a great tigress stalking among fluttering doves; she always claimed that she once tried to persuade a famous surgeon to graft a tiger's tail to her spine so that she could lash it about when she got angry. To her fans, she was known as "Sarah the Divine...
Georgio was a neo-surrealist. He and Andy had barhopped in Paris and New York with Hemingway, Dylan Thomas and other experimental creative minds still living. "Tanta" Honey-Lou bought the wild paintings of Georgio and miscellaneous cohorts--she was their patron goddess. Her top-floor studio which led onto the terrace and pool, was hung with eleven portraits done by thankful young admiring artists she had helped. Not flattering ones only. In one she was a pale-green mermaid, with an ochre heart, but still with her own silky orange hair. At 45, her bikinied figure was a source...