Word: wildernesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CAREFREE 1928 was a year of peace, prosperity, bootleg booze and "whoopee." Commander Richard E. Byrd set out on his first Antarctic expedition, and Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly the Atlantic. Thornton Wilder won a Pulitzer Prize for The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Warner Brothers released the first all-talking picture, The Lights of New York, and Walt Disney produced his first Mickey Mouse cartoon, Plane Crazy. In the World Series, the New York Yankees walloped the St. Louis Cardinals in four straight, with Babe Ruth hitting three home runs in the final game. In August...
...McKim's inspiration. Endowed partly by J. P. Morgan the elder and chartered by Congress, it soon took in artists and classicists. Now, aided by 50 U.S. colleges and universities, it stands as one of the finest overseas representatives of U.S. culture. Among its alumni: Playwright Thornton Wilder, Classicist Robert F. Goheen (see above), Novelists Ralph Ellison and William Styron, Poets Richard Wilbur and John Ciardi, Composers Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland and Roger Sessions...
Mboya speaks as a man of good intentions. But even if Mboya's intentions are to be trusted, there is no assurance that wilder men like Argwings-Kodhek, or Kenyatta's fierce activists, will not rise to power, hurling democratic principles out the window. As Michael Blundell puts it: "It requires a lot of faith...
...college theatrical group has cancelled plans for a tour of U.S. Army bases in the Pacific area with its production of Our Town, by Thornton Wilder. The show will still be presented in Cambridge this May, as originally scheduled, Joel F. Henning '61, producer, announced yesterday...
AMERICAN Some Like It Hot. Director Billy Wilder's splendid parody of a Mack Sennett comedy, sustained without letup or letdown for two hours (TIME, March...