Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Revenge Reaction. At news of the dictator's downfall, Caracas became the scene of a strange mixture of wild celebration and savage fighting. Cheering crowds ran through the streets waving banners and screaming "Libertad!" at the top of their lungs. They raided the offices of the pro-Pérez Jiménez newspaper El Heraldo, ransacked the building where the strongman had been declared winner of the plebiscite. They burst into the homes of the strongman and his officials, carried off furniture and set fires. Thirsting for revenge against Pérez Jiménez' Security Police...
...played out with style, charm and directness by the Old Vic's delicate Bloom, Claire, and Charlton Heston. Adapter Joseph Schrank's dialogue, clean, spare, and always faithful to the original, gave Beauty the illusion that "all life was still at sunrise, a wonder and a wild desire," made possible such a strikingly gentle image as when Beauty returned to her dying Beast. She touched his hirsute head for the first time, and Beast said, with disarming simplicity: "You are stroking my horrible head...
Three days after the Associated Press's manned missile landed in oblivion, the United Press staged its own excursion into the wild blue yonder. Panted a U.P. bulletin from Helsinki: "The state radio here picked up signals early today which indicate Russia may have launched a moon rocket." European radio stations, said U.P., had picked up a "mysterious beep-beep-beep" which lasted three times as long as the signal from an orbiting Sputnik and "suggested the Doppler effect* that would be produced by a transmitter speeding away from the earth...
...Yeller himself, a flop-eared hound with soulful eyes, who behaves as if he were trying to persuade Disney to invent a new cartoon character called Supermutt. He stops a bear that is charging the kid brother, rescues the older brother from a pack of wild hogs, saves the mother from being chewed up by a maddened wolf. The action, in short, is exciting for everybody, but all too often the dialogue is only for the very young. Sample: Kid Brother (after the family cow is killed) : "How come you shot old Rose?" Big Brother: "She was sick." Kid Brother...
...surface, the book (its setting is French Equatorial Africa) tells the adventures of a dentist named Morel who becomes obsessed with the notion of protecting wild fauna from hunters. But Novelist Gary is really concerned with "another animal who needed protection"-man. Elephants to Morel are "the last and greatest living image of liberty that still existed on earth." Man, in the midst of his bad dreams of extinction by nuclear warfare, simply cannot afford to allow a noble form of life to be needlessly slaughtered. Morel has learned his respect for dignity in a hard school-a Nazi concentration...