Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This started us off on the idea that some people, for some reason, somehow develop antibody mechanisms which act against one of their own body constituents-which may be red cells, white cells or whole organs. For years we cried in the wilderness. We were called wild-eyed visionaries. Critics asserted that the human body should not, cannot and will not develop such a mechanism of self-destruction." By now Dr. Dameshek has far more supporters than detractors. Many of the supporters, Dr. Dameshek complains, accept his concept only if they can give it another name, "auto-allergy...
...real-life trial (Hales v. Petit) concerning a judge who also lost his reason and drowned himself near Canterbury. When the coroner's jury ruled felo-de-se (suicide), Judge Hale's estate was forfeited to the Crown. Countering in court, his widow roused a wild debate over whether Hale's felonious act of suicide preceded his death in point of time...
...stupendous. On or off stage, I have never seen such torment as his jealousy puts him in-it is as though a wild beast has been sewn up inside him and is clawing to get out. His whole body writhes and flails, out of control-not the reeling and grimacing that often passes for passion, but the real thing, directed from within. He kills with such sorrow that it is unbearable. He is a very great actor, indeed...
Puffing and globbering they drugged theyselves rampling or dancing with wild abdomen, stubbing in wild postumes amongst themselves. It was not the Jumblies setting to sea in a sieve, nor was it the mimsy borogoves. John Lennon, the writing Beatle ("He's the arty one"), is-in his own way-describing the members of the Neville Club as they sit in hubbered lumps smoking Hernia and taking Odeon. In this startling collection of verse and prosery, Lennon has rolled Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and James Thurber into one great post-Joycean spitball. All those jellybean-lobbing, caterwauling Beatle fans...
Miss Milgrim's wild black hair, marvelously petulant mouth and expressive eyes make her Electra visually right. And aside from first-night nervousness and occasional unsureness with her hands, her performance as the sister who is at once compassionate and brutal matches the effectiveness of her looks...