Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vacant of the gut feel of that era. For those who cut their political teeth on venomous demonstrations against the war and Nixon as its perpetuator, there will be little satisfaction in the excerpts' Ziegleresque newspeak. Nixon does not say he was wrong. Neither does he launch into a wild defensive screed of self-justification. Again, he seems to be trying to make everything he did seem ordinary, and even to make the context of his decisions similarly mundane. The mobilization of America's youth against his policies is presented like a police blotter--"In the academic year...
Only when one of Schorer's characters desperately tries to escape his all too neatly molded life in an original way does his story become interesting. In "Don't Take Me for Granted," Gilbert Miles finds a release from his dull, unaccomplished life in a wild imitation of solitary madness...
That sardonic explanation is as sound as any for the explosion of optimism that sent the long depressed stock market kiting more than 55 points in six trading days through last Thursday. The wild rally that started April 13 hit a peak of frenzy at the start of last week: on Monday, April 17, as whoops and cries echoed through the New York Stock Exchange and floor traders tossed torn-up paper in the air to celebrate, an unbelievable 63.5 million shares changed hands, and the Dow Jones industrial average spurted almost 15 points. Prices stumbled a bit the next...
...studio, din. area, dressrm, window, kit. D/W, so expo. Then comes the price for bagging what is really a one-room flat: perhaps $350, plus another $350 security, plus maybe another $350 to a rental agent for finding the place. No kids, dogs, cats, Venus's-flytraps or wild parties, please...
...worked an intramural softball game this Wednesday afternoon, the 23,689th contest of his illustrious career. Now, as the remnants of what had been a beautiful April sun got tangled up in the commuter traffic heading west out of Cambridge, he took a deep breath and spoke of his wild and crazy afternoon...