Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story is told in film language every bit as wild as the chase itself. Time is a liquid, flowing back and forth. One second is the future, and the platoon's officer (Michael Crawford) has been captured by the Germans. The next is the past, and he is just starting out on his mission. Lunacy is the order of the day: staff officers exchange bubble-gum cards in the heat of conflict. An ex-cavalry colonel shoots his disabled tank. When a man is wounded, his wife abruptly appears on the battlefield. "It hurts," he groans, looking...
...trying to figure out TIME'S absolutely manic obsession with the profusion of one's hair. Aside from your Essay, which is admittedly an observant comment on the trend of the times, 1 am informed in that same issue that David Bellinger is "balding," Jerry Rubin is "wild-haired," Judge W. Harold Cox is "white-thatched," Emperor Rosko is "lion-maned" etc. Is there some deep hidden meaning that is escaping me? Am I being psychologically brainwashed...
...Waynesburg is irresistible, Westminster is immovable: the Titans have held six opponents to an average of 98.8 yds. a game; their wild, gambling defense is calculated to confuse. "We use a split-six, a four-three, and a variation of the Notre Dame four-four," says Defensive Coach Ralph Bauch. "We stunt in the line, and we do a lot of blitzing to put pressure on the quarterback. We're set up to blitz any hole, and we sometimes shoot in a deep back as well as a linebacker...
Truncated Barthianism. As a case history of activism gone wild, Ramsey offers a detailed analysis of the World Council's 1966 Geneva Conference on Church and Society, which he attended as an observer. An overwhelming majority of the participants, he says, were doctrinaire liberals who imposed on the conference a "truncated Barthi anism" - a theology emphasizing Christ as a revolutionary figure. Proposals were perfunctorily debated (floor speeches were limited to an average of four minutes) and hurried through (no more than half of those present ever voted...
Cambridge has re-elected two incumbent city councillors, is close to electing two more, but a wild battle is shaping up for the remaining five council seats...