Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardware store in Austin, Texas, and asked for several boxes of rifle ammunition. As he calmly wrote a check in payment, the clerk inquired with friendly curiosity what all the ammunition was for. "To shoot some pigs," he replied. At the time, the answer seemed innocent enough, for wild pigs still abound not far from the capital. The horror of its intent only became obvious a few hours later, when the customer, Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, a student of architectural engineering at the University of Texas, seized his grisly fame as the perpetrator of the worst mass murder in recent...
...spreading his zeal in a particularly unpalatable way. In the past few months, the regime has been pushing a program to get the populace to eat an occasional "revolutionary meal" or "bitter-herb meal," made up of unhusked rice, wild-grown vegetables and leaves-the type of food that Mao and his fellow revolutionaries sometimes subsisted on during the Long March and the years in Yenan...
...utterly wild a scheme that we can't resist!" So saying, the management of the London Symphony canceled 20 recording sessions, five concerts, refused an invitation to the Athens Festival and, with the abandon of undergrads leaving for spring vacation, bundled the orchestra off to that big sandbox in the sun, Daytona Beach, Fla. They are the attraction at the first Florida International Music Festival, by far the most culturally ambitious festival in the Southeast...
...creation of the Old West featuring "Buffalo Bill's" own collection of Western painting. Not to be outdone, the Denver Art Museum has mounted its own vivid exhibition of frontier days. Together, the two shows offer the American tourist more rootin'-tootin' cowhands, Texas longhorns, wild ponies, war paint and buckskin than a month of Saturday nights (see color...
...house, the news that Buffalo Bill collected art may sound downright subversive. In fact, it was darned shrewd. Many of the paintings featured old Bill himself, adding luster to his legend. But as a chief scout for the U.S. cavalry and later King of the Cowboys in his own Wild West show, he had a genuine interest in preserving an image of the West that he had known...