Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action follows the banning of freshman parties last weekend by von Stade to enable the Administration to seek means of curbing party crashing by outsiders. He laid partial blame on crashers for the wild parties in the Yard two weekends...
Brooks and Henry originally took Smart to ABC, where network officials pronounced the script "too wild" and demanded a lovable dog to give the show more heart. Brooks and Henry went back and perversely put in a cowardly, mangy, wheezy dog that chased cars and bit strangers. "The executive who read the script, I'm told, screamed, 'It's un-American!' " recalls Henry. Adds Brooks: "They wanted to put a print housecoat on the show. Max was to come home to his mother and explain everything. I hate mothers on shows. Max has no mother...
...March morning in 1900, a small boy crouched along the bank of Ohio's Scioto River, sighted down the barrel of his BB gun, and sent a pellet smashing into the brain of a big red-breasted, blue-backed bird. It was the last wild passenger pigeon ever to be sighted. In this indignant, touching book, Allan W. Eckert, author of The Great Auk, details the wanton greed that extinguished this remarkable species and imagines a biography for the last wild survivor that died that morning on the Scioto...
Three passenger pigeons, captive in the Cincinnati Zoo, were still alive when the wild bird was shot in 1900. The last of these, a female named Martha, died in 1914 at the age of 29. Her body was frozen into a 300-lb. cake of ice, and shipped to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, where she still perches under glass, a plumed reproof to man's destructiveness...
...wild, drunken party and a series of disorderly incidents in the Yard last Saturday have caused the Freshman Dean's Office to ban all parties and parietal extensions in Freshman dormitories this weekend...