Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cried that he was innocent, said cockily, "I'm going to take care of myself, don't you worry." But last week he not only resigned as Democratic secretary of the Senate, but refused for the first time in his busy, brief life to talk with reporters. Wild rumors sped around Capitol Hill that this was only the beginning of the story about Bobby Baker, the young fellow who knew who was drunk, who was out of town, and who was sleeping with whom. At week's end, and at the insistence of Delaware's Republican...
...powerful minority," says 19-year-old Sue Colodny. The only girl in a class gets plenty of professorial attention. "Every activity on campus wants girls," gloats one of them, and a freshman reports that getting a date required only the merest smile. "It's wild," she says...
Patty Duke, the superior child actress of The Miracle Worker, plays two roles as "identical cousins," one a square, the other a wild hare, in The Patty Duke Show (ABC). Her program works no miracles, but Patty, now 15, is a winning girl and pleasant to watch. Other shows are made palatable by three even riper pomegranates. Inger Stevens, for example, could stand still and smile for 30 minutes and win a higher rating than Joe Valachi pitching for the Dodgers. Unfortunately, she is imprisoned in the script of The Farmer's Daughter (ABC), a comedy series loosely based...
Hippolytus, by legend a Roman legionary converted to Christianity, was sentenced to be torn apart by wild horses during the 3rd century. But the Flemish artist painted his martyrdom as a contemporary event and in the dress of the day the grisly event took on a more direct meaning. Only one other known altarpiece is devoted to the same subject-the one by Dieric Bouts and Hugo van der Goes that hangs in the Museum of the Church of the Holy Saviour in Bruges...
...latter can come with the dawn. They cannot survive side by side. Latin Americans must choose between them." Time and again the reader finds an intelligent and informative discussion of the Latin situation juxtaposed with an irrational and inexcusably demagogic tirade against the "international communist conspiracy" or "the wild-eyed, messianic posture" of Castro's Cuba...