Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eventually, he runs into an old buddy and fellow member of the Beat Generation who is a reform school alumnus. They have a Wild Time racing around to parties and bars and out to the West Coast. Cutting back and forth across the country for 308 pages, they meet at least a couple of hundred other real gone characters. Sometimes the boys work a little, or sleep with some cute chick, or steal cars, or get married, or hitch-hike, or get divorced; almost nightly they get drunk and/or take dope. Dean sets the pace, stealing five cars one night...
...Wild, Man, Wild...
...outspoken teenager from East Boston will utter a few expletives and say that all Harvard men are, to put it mildly, snobs who wear vests and have ridiculous accents. And in the Midwest a mild fellow will strongly declare that Harvard is filled with shabbily dressed men who have wild ideas and long hair. While these interpretations are oversimplifications, these two types do represent the spectrum of Harvard College. Both the Harvard man with the vest and the one with the long hair are an important part of the College. And while both Beacon Hill and Greenwich Village have their...
...themselves but to the nation, embracing and mirroring its thousand aspects. Charles Willson Peale fought at Princeton and Trenton and wintered at Valley Forge. John James Audubon killed birds in the wilderness not only for models but also to feed his children. Frederic Remington actually rode the Wild West as ranch hand, cook and cavalryman. Grant Wood said that all his best ideas "came while milking...
...methods of oil-well cementing (his "jet mixer" paved the way for mass production of well casings); after a three-year lung illness; in Los Angeles. Once so broke his wife had to pawn her wedding ring, Halliburton got his break in 1919 when he controlled a wild oil well for the late Oklahoma Wildcatter "Wild Bill" Skelly. formed his own company in 1920 (the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. last year grossed $176,464,666), spread his empire into many fields, including pioneer production of lightweight (aluminum) luggage. Halliburton belittled the "good old days" as days of backbreaking labor...