Word: wildered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ostentatiously distinctive or capable of arousing democratic envy . . .," reminisced James Lowell, neglecting to mention Thoreau's breach of decorum and, moreover, humbly refraining from revealing that even as Thoreau strode in olive green, he himself, in the class behind Thoreau, was decked out in vests and jackets reflecting the wilder reaches of the visible spectrum...
Awards and prizes take up ten lines of his 32-line listing in Who's Who, and now Poet, Playwright, Professor, Author, Classicist and Critic Thornton Wilder, 68, had another line to add: the first $5,000 National Book Committee prize for literature. No less a fan than Lady Bird Johnson made the presentation at the White House. And she, after refreshing her memory by rereading some of his works, declared him just to her taste. He avoids "a dreary reliance on four-letter words," said the First Lady, and his marching, singing prose makes "the commonplaces of living...
Either John, Scott or Jim McCandlish will probably start for the Crimson. Like the rest of the team, they've performed erratically this season. McCandlish strung together several good performances, appeared to be the "sleeper," on the Crimson mound staff, but against Penn on Saturday was wilder than a Borneo native. After being shelled in his two previous outings, Scott turned in a sparkling relief performance against the Quakers...
...proper Victorians are soon fighting to embrace a fate worse than death. The romantic and violent 19th century is Author Lesley Blanch's special province. Painter, stage designer, film critic and ex-wife of Novelist Romain Gary, she has written several skillful biographies of the period (The Wilder Shores of Love, The Sabres of Paradise). In this book, her first novel, she proves herself a comic writer with a range of wit that can make her readers grin, giggle, gasp, even explode into laughter...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Billy Wilder's 1959 gem Some Like It Hot, with Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as members of an all-girl band...