Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some young belle may walk and talk men wild...
Crazy Horse, mounted on a wild stallion, would loom even larger than the heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt on nearby Mount Rushmore, which Ziolkowski helped Gutzon Borglum blast. With no Government money, as Borglum had, Ziolkowski hoped to finance his work by mining the mountain's beryl and feldspar as he went along and selling Indian souvenirs to curious visitors. It would take him 30 years, he guessed last week, to whittle Crazy Horse...
...WILD SWEET WITCH (234 pp.)- Philip Woodruff-Harcourt, Brace...
Novelist Woodruff tries half-heartedly to get under the skins of his English characters, who are forever mooning over the little lanes and hedges of England but behaving with wise good cheer. The Wild Sweet Witch ends with Jodh Singh's death by violence in 1938. It is not violence brought on by his political beliefs. When he is framed by two of his enemies, he goes wild and kills them; then he dies fighting rather than surrender to the British commissioner. The "wild, sweet witch" of his visionary hopes-a free and happy India-has at least...
Much of what began as a wild, free upswell of talent, testing new forms and themes, has settled into an orthodox and predictable rut. These spearheaders did add a kind of undisciplined virility to U.S. letters, but most of them now seem to be acquiring literary paunches...