Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like it or not, Senator Robert Kennedy has a reputation he can't shake for hanging tough, cool and humorless. The combination might be surefire at the ballot box, but at the box office-sure chill. Or so it seemed until a few weeks ago, when out came Wild Thing, a new 45-r.p.m. recording of a big-beat tune. The vocalist is a dead ringer for Bobby and he purportedly is at a recording session...
...Stand by," the control room orders. "This is Wild Thing, Take 72, Senator." The music begins. "Bobby" comes on in the heavy-breathing opening stanzas with all the lustiness of a dried...
...Wild thing, you make my heart sing. You make everything groovy. Wild thing...
...Eunice, a little more tempo there." Then Bobby is cued for the big sock finish. "Come on and hold me tight," he begins laconically, but from the control room a voice interrupts: "A little more Boston soul, Senator." Later, when he waxes too hot ("O come on, wild thing"), the producer cautions: "Not so ruthless, Senator...
...Glasgow slum and with a group of sympathetic clerics and unemployed workers went to the tiny island of lona, off the west coast of Scotland. It was a meaningful and symbolic choice: from lona during the sixth century, the Irish missionary St. Columba set forth to Christianize the wild and pagan Scots. There MacLeod sought to build a cooperative community of dedicated Christians who would unite work, study and prayer-a modern Protestant counterpart of the ancient monastic ideal...