Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smith mobilized minions and money with customary efficiency. The Senator, when not in Africa, campaigned happily up and down the sidewalks of New York with a dazed-looking Silverman in tow. In a ludicrous attempt to offset Bobby's righteous rhetoric and familial charisma, the opposition made the wild charge that Kennedy opposed Klein because Boss Jones is a Negro. Neither this nor the more reasonable argument that Kennedy had entered the fight merely to increase his influence got very far. The vote last week was 70,771 for Silverman to 47,625 for Klein...
Indeed, as applied by the young demagogues of SNCC and CORE, the notion of black power is inching dangerously toward a philosophy of black separatism and perhaps ultimately of black Jacobinism, almost indistinguishable from the wild-eyed doctrines of the Black Muslims and heavy with intimations of racial hatred...
...that, the Soviets are treading more carefully than some other Eastern Europeans, notably the Hungarians and Czechs. Says Ioffe: "We do not allow ourselves to run wild with our plans." Soviet managers apparently still have little freedom to determine prices-Ioffe does not mention this question. Most important, there is not a breath of a suggestion that business will ever be privately owned...
Nora Joyce sighed after wading through her husband's Ulysses: "I guess the man's a genius, but what a dirty mind he has, surely!" Indeed, James Joyce did have a lot of perdition swimming about in his head, much of which he poured into his great wild tome on Leopold Bloom's odyssey through Dublin on the day and night of June 16, 1904. James and his mind were laid to rest in Zurich's Fluntern Cemetery in 1941, the grave distinguished only by a small headstone. For years Manhattan Art Dealer Lee Nordness...
...Army Jeep slows as it corners on a bumpy, narrow forest road. From the back seat, two wild-eyed German SS troopers lunge uncertainly, then bolt for the nearby wood. A pistol crackles, and the running Germans plop forward on their faces. They were shot while attempting to escape, reports the U.S. Army lieutenant who gunned them down. Not so, insists a civilian witness: the troopers had been commanded to bolt and then were callously murdered. Getting at the truth turns out to be like peeling through several skins of an onion. First-Novelist Frederick Keefe, who is an editor...