Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even while he was learning the pottery code, the young rabbi kept coming back to the historical cadences of the Hebrew Old Testament. He planned his first ambitious explorations in Moab, Edom, Ammon, and the wild desert haunts of the Kenites and Midianites...
Desert Etiquette. Those were wild years in Palestine, as the Jews and Arabs warmed up for full-scale war. Shots rang in the narrow streets of Jerusalem; machine guns chattered beyond the Judean hills. It was not time for an unarmed rabbi to go exploring in Arab country, but Glueck was never questioned about his religion. "That a Jew should wander by himself in Trans-Jordan," he says, "was so unheard...
...ever worked with," says Elaine bitterly. In fact, a little cloud of H25O4 does seem to hover over Laurence Harvey's head, sprinkling down on all around him, especially women. But he generally has the grace to pour a little milk after the acid. A Walk on the Wild Side he remembers as "a ghastly film, made more so by that ghastly woman Capucine," but he adds: "I suppose it's not her fault she can't act." And he thinks that Of Human Bondage-which opens in March, starring him with Kim Novak-should be released...
Vodka Chaser. The film that made him famous was 1959's Room at the Top, in which he affected a pudding-thick Yorkshire inflection. In Summer and Smoke he purred in decayed Southern tones, in Wild Side he was a drawl-in' no-good Texas bum, and in Butterfield 8 he was a pale Yalie. This sort of variety is what he likes. "I refuse," he says with a flip of the wrist, "to be myself in films. It's been a long time since I've used my normal voice...
...free men, of the rights of a private man against the huge man-chewing, electronically endowed apparatus of a modern state; and these form the basis of the most curious book of the current publishing season. Edmund Wilson's pamphlet against the income tax is invested with the wild eloquence that comes to a man who has been wounded in the pocketbook...