Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DIRECTIONS '66 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Pearl Lang is choreographer and solo dancer of Prayer for a Dark Bird, a ballet based on passages from the Navajo Night Chant. Earl Wild composed the music and Marian Seldes reads the chant...
...Pham Bong on Dec. 31, 1923, in Diem Dien, a village in central Viet Nam now under Hanoi's rule. One of three sons of a well-to-do farmer, he was sent at the age of 13 to the Bao Quoc pagoda in Hué to train for monkhood. Wild and fond of practical jokes at first, he was expelled, then given a second chance. He matured into a student with a photographic memory and a searching intellect. His teacher at Bao Quoc, Thich Tri Do, who now heads the tame Buddhist church of North Viet Nam, guided the impressionable...
Before the big home-town parade through the crowded streets of Wapakoneta, Ohio, somebody asked the local hero, Astronaut Neil Armstrong, 35, just how nervous he really was when Gemini 8 began its wild yawing and rolling last month during the Agena rendezvous. Replied Armstrong, with rueful pertinence: "It wasn't any worse than some of the scares I've had driving an automobile...
...drunk Canadians are creations of T. D. Allman '66. The Dawn of the Super-Renaissance" rises on these two sinners as they sit in the wake of a wild party, reliving their amours. Each is a kind of narcissistic, overgrown adolescent, his dim emotions locked in his sensual tastes. The story is about the feelings that somehow force their way through the pair's collegiate preoccupations. Allman's prose plays over the senses without being heavy-handed. The story moves along rapidly, making graceful transitions between narrative and introspection. With the final knockout punch, feeling--as an emotion, as well...
Harvard had taken an early 2-0 lead, largely through the heroics of Dan Hootstein. In the first. Jeff Grate singled to center and took second on a wild throw by the center fielder. Hootstein followed with another single to center to drive Grate across. In the third, Hootstein led off with a long home run up the alley in left center that the Navy outfielders didn't retrieve until he was rounding third...