Word: wildering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since V-E day, Hermann has had his sights set on the U.S. He read all the books he could find in Berlin by American authors (Tom Paine, Walt Whitman, John Dos Passes, Thornton Wilder). Working on the staff of Die Neue Zeitung, American-edited newspaper, he learned to speak fairly fluent English. Finally an Institute official, serving with the American Military Government in Berlin, lined up the big chance for him to study...
Thanks to the fact that the ice was broken with the Wilder-Sistrom movie of James M. Cain's Double Indemnity, Hollywood can now get by with filming this kind of shabby "realism." The blessing is mixed. Apparently, U.S. moviegoers have matured to the point where they will stand for reasonably frank images of unhappy marriage, sour love affairs, and of a disease so gravely epidemic as Mr. Young's obsessive desire to stay in the money at all costs. But in this, as in most such "adult" movies, the semi-maturity is well mixed with trashiness...
Helson, a Math major, received the Wister Prize--$65--as the Senior with the highest record in the fields of Music of Mathematics, while Epstein earned the Elizabeth Wilder Prize--worth $40--for turning in the best mid-year examination paper in Elementary German...
...Insight into natural law" is Author Wylie's proposed solution. Children, he demands, must be taught that they are animals, not souls. They must be suckled not on clerical and patriotic values, but on Darwinism, anthropology, ethnology, Freudianism (one of Author Wylie's wilder notions is that some children should be placed on an island, "reached by tunnel from the mainland," where feeding-bottles and other nourishment will hang from bushes-giving peeking scientists a chance to study inborn faculties at their most virginal). Only when the resulting adult is thus "aware" and "conscious in the instinctual sense...
Next to modern escapist drama, voters signified a desire for modern tragedy, as Eugene O'Nell placed third in the playwright preferences of the interviewees. Behind O'Nell followed Noel C. Coward, Henrick Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, Maxwell Anderson, Clifford Odets, Anton Chekov, and Thornton Wilder. stated, "There was an almost intense monotony of response, which may perhaps be indicative of the stereotyped taste pattern of American audiences in general, and more particularly a definite escapist sentiment...