Word: wildered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With his wayward orange mane and glazed fish-green eyes. Gene Wilder conveys a beguiling look of incipient madness. In his films to date he has seemed always on the verge of lurching into some marvelously insane enterprise. For a time he worried about becoming typecast as Hollywood's favorite neurasthenic comedian. "There was always a reservoir of hysteria in me that I could call upon as an actor," says Wilder. "As I grew out of it, I became more and more dissatisfied with the parts I was playing. But Hollywood, of course, couldn't keep up with...
Finally, do you know where Larry Parks? Is Ann Sothern? Is Dame May Whitty? Is Cornel Wilde? Isn't Billy Wilder? Is Teresa Wright? What did Keenan Wynn? Isn't Loretta Young...
...some artists, all this permissiveness seemed the reverse of a challenge. They declared that they found the wall, the floor, the room, the very idea of making an object, confining. So they have struck out for wilder shores of the imagination, for deserts and plains, mountaintops and ocean floors, claiming all nature as their canvas and every living thing-from molds and yeasts to cows and their own bodies-as their material...
...change through the system does not imply an acceptance of the whole system. Forbearance to use violence does not connote complacency; militant impatience does not require violence in order to prove itself." Brewster took pride in pointing out that most Yale students "have taken the measure of the wilder extremes and found them wanting...
Last week an event took place that far overshadows any of these disasters, and in fact any in the past several decades. In his 1927 novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder wrote: "Those catastrophes which lawyers shockingly call the 'acts of God' were more than usually frequent. Tidal waves were continually washing away cities; earthquakes arrived every week and towers fell upon good men and women all the time." He was writing of Peru...