Word: wilding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...billion IMF loan to Britain. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury William Simon, IMF officials and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey all protested that no detailed conditions for the loan have yet been negotiated. Even so, the pound fell 7½?in a mere two hours of wild trading the following day and ended up at an alltime closing low of $1.59, v. $2.58 in the summer...
...Wild...
...wild," Francis Nyirjesy '77, a veteran librarian behind Lamont's reserve desk, said of the increasing number of students in the library each evening...
...Oscar Wild's masterpiece is half-satire and all farce. Its humor is partly topical, rooted in the decadence of the late Victorian aristocracy and gentry. But its farcical underpinnings allow it to date unusually well. Wilde's dialogue abounds in inversion and paradox, in the replacement of the weighty with the insubstantial. His characters talk nonsense with a straight face and flout verbal conventions while remaining always socially correct...
...good thing so many of Wild's lines are virtually actor-proof, bacause in the Leverett House production they need all protection they can get. The problem begins with director Samuel Bloomfield's conception of the play. The two sets of main characters--Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, the spoiled, young dandies, and Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew, the vain, young ingenues who wish for beaux named "Earnest"--should appear essntially interchangeable. Otherwise, the contusion of identities in the second act and the symmetry of the romantic pairings at the end make little dramatic sense...