Word: wildered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pacing, odd for a thriller, allows a great complexity of events within each shot. Instead of making points, imposing judgments by cutting between one action and another, Franju juxtaposes them within the same space, allows them to coexist without making a moral judgement. Refusing to simplify, he implies wilder and wilder combinations of good and evil in single figures and single scenes. The world of 1914 is complex, but also very ordered, within his frames. One feels that one is seeing everything, that this world is morally complete...
...feel the effects of alcohol more acutely; 4) the inexperienced driver, whose lack of skill may be magnified by even minute amounts of alcohol; 5) the normal driver who is unusually sensitive to alcohol; 6) the motorist who is prone to "aggressive, sociopathic driving," and who may become even wilder with a few drinks in him; 7) the driver whose basic problem is "chronic, compulsive, sociopathic drinking...
...very hot, and everybody was getting his little "taste" to cool off. Flasks, bottles, and beer cans were everywhere. Even young teenagers were sipping from foaming bottles held in one hand as they danced, head back, eyes closed. The dancing got looser and wilder and better. It went on like this for blocks and blocks, and the second line got bigger all the time. The musicians bounced along blasting out their roughest and raunchiest music, "Little Liza Jane," "Honky Tonk Town," "Shoutin' Blues." The numbers just kept coming. Battiste strutted sideways, holding his trumpet with one hand, a beer...
...courts, an increasing number of resolute college administrators and even by exasperated fellow students. The crucial question is whether the reaction has come soon enough, and whether it will take the proper form. If it does not, higher education in the U.S. is in trouble, threatened by both the wilder dissenters and by the repressive forces of an enraged government and public...
...bringing down, a reduction to absurdity of the meaning and intent of learning. Is there then any rational basis for optimism? It is arguable. Perhaps, reason and prophecy to the contrary, man must rely on the instinctive hope, the muted gaudeamus, expressed by the maid Lily Sabina in Wilder's play...