Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearest approach in The Cosmological Eye to Miller's cumulative power is a nightmare section building up to a bloody, fecund millennium in which a menagerie breaks loose, animals, vegetables and Indians run wild, and there are "no pale white faces, thanks be to Christ!" For the rest, its often funny short pieces are as mild compared to the two novels as they are wild, and fresh, relative to the bulk-and much of the best-of U. S. writing...
...Tennessee's opponent: Howard Jones's undefeated Southern California powerhouse (often referred to this season as "three of the four best teams on the West Coast"), which was held to a 0-to-0 tie by gallant U. C. L. A. last week before 103,300 wild-voiced Los Angeles fans...
Destry Rides Again (Universal). One day this year Hungarian-born Producer Joe Pasternak had an idea for a U. S. western. He would take German-born Marlene Dietrich, cast her as French-born entertainer in a Wild West saloon. He would take Russian-born Mischa Auer, cast him as an expatriate Cossack with a will to be a cow hand. He would take U. S.-born James Stewart, cast him as an easy-talking, no-gun sheriff who brings law'to lawless Bottle Neck, routs its bad men by using his head instead of his trigger finger. Producer Pasternak...
...WILD PALMS-William Faulkner -Random House...
With a minority vote of 23 out of 87 voting the Leftists were defeated by a wide margin in their proposal to place the Union on record as defending Soviet action "as a necessary measure for self-defense." Wild applause and some heckling characterized the meeting and grew with the introduction and discussion of the amendments following the officership elections...