Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like a Democrat. If Bill Langer remains a Republican, he will lose strong support in the N.P.L., a loss that could be fatal; if he switches to the Democratic side, he will lose seniority in the U.S. Senate. At week's end, for once, North Dakota's "Wild Bill" Langer had made no statement...
Concert starts calmly, but oldtimers remember September 1953 Hampton concert at Concertgebouw: one boy hysterical; hospital; dancing on stage; wild time. Manager said never again. Too shocking for home of great orchestra once conducted by Willem Mengelberg...
...Bill Russell (TIME, Jan. 9) wasted no energy in fast, fancy breaks down court or wild jumps after every rebound. Flatfooted, he let others fight for balls that bounced out of his reach, but every time there was half a chance of getting his giant palm between an Iowa shot and the basket, that palm was there. Russell's teammates took it easy, too, passed and wove in careful patterns until Russell was in place in the slot, then attacked. When they missed, the Russell palm was there to tap the shot in. It was all so smooth...
...Holy Thursday of 1956, the Garden of Gethsemane glows with flowers beneath its ancient olive trees-the poppies and daisies, the groundsel, ranunculus, garlic and blue lupine that grew wild there when Jesus sweated blood in the agony of His prayer: "My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me." In the grotto nearby, where Judas betrayed his Master with a kiss, the murals from the Byzantine and Crusader periods have peeled away, and the air is still dank from the winter's rains...
Alec Goodrich is a tawny-eyed, well-heeled, philandering novelist. He lives in a wild part of Wales surrounded by "strange, Wagnerian scenery" and with the loud Atlantic roaring on his doorstep. He defies the Inspector (and shocks Harold) by traveling first-class with a third-class ticket and investing his money, his sacred money, in absurd companies...