Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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COACHES CORNER: Cross-country coach Bill McCurdy, now in his 27th year with the Harvard harriers, was surprised by his bunch of "wild and crazy guys" during morning practice at Groton. McCurdy was standing on the course, stop-watch in tow, waiting for his charges to hustle by. Instead, a van drove up through the early morning fog; and out jumped the squad, stripped naked for a sunrise Chinese fire drill. They then got back into the van and drove off, leaving McCurdy to ponder yet another season in the totally unpredictable Ivy League...Coach Billy Cleary reportedly steaming over...
...Mont. (pop. 964), or Alliance, Neb. (pop. 7,987), or Vernon, Texas (pop. 11,454), the Smalls' young crewmen dabble only halfheartedly in once cherished cutter traditions: drinking beer, chasing girls and avoiding brawls with jealous local boys who delight in baiting the wheaties. Despite the myths of wild living, the boys mostly work long hours (when it doesn't rain), eat quickly, sleep a lot and save their money, a practice made easier by the fact that the Smalls, like most employers, pay off at the end of the season in one lump sum (minus small advances...
...released comrades with weapons taken from the Deputies' bodyguards at the National Palace. Then, along with the bishops and ambassadors who had mediated, they took off for Panama aboard two airliners. Cero, the last to enter the plane, turned and waved his rifle, and the crowd sent up a wild cheer as the planes took off. Said a youth: "They'll be back, be sure of that...
Perhaps the most menacing sign of loss of faith in the dollar is the wild gold rush that shoved the price of that indestructible metal to a close of $208.50 an ounce last week-up 25% so far this year. The boom has been primarily a dollar phenomenon. The price of gold in yen or marks has changed only slightly. But from Hong Kong to London, gold markets that once were the preserve of diehard fundamentalists are crawling with investors-corporate treasurers, money managers, individual speculators-eager to turn dollars into the metal that has always been a mystical symbol...
...Merlyn's knack for livery yarning and his ability for introspection give the book its special quality: a fat, comercial novel with a lean, serious writer signaling wildly to get out. Insiders in Las Vegas and Hollywood may be doing some wild signaling themselves. The novel has an enticing roman à clef flavor even though Puzo dismisses the issue with a typically tough and ready remark: "How dare they think they are part of my creation?" Nevertheless, Pauline Kael will be flattered when she recognizes herself as the highly praised film critic Clara Ford. Certain agents, and some executives...