Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...split it into countless specialties. At one extreme are the geneticists who deal with the chemistry of heredity and seldom see a whole living organism. Classical geneticists work in peculiar zoos, surrounded by cages of mice, jars of insects, cultures of yeasts or bacteria. Population geneticists study groups of wild creatures to see whether changes of environment affect hereditary traits. Practical geneticists use the latest tricks of science to breed new plant and animal strains. Geneticists who study humans are the most frustrated; they can seldom slice up their subjects or mate them experimentally...
...appears, as this goes to press," said the Montgomery, Ala., Advertiser, "that Governor Wallace has dispatched state troopers to Mobile and Huntsville to usurp local power by force. If this becomes the fact, the Advertiser must sorrowfully conclude that, in this instance, its friend has gone wild." As the week wore on and the Advertiser's fears became fact, the paper reached its inevitable conclusion: "It is very hard, be certain, for the Advertiser to say it, but the fact is that Governor Wallace made a monkey of himself...
...achieved by movies from abroad, by an array of vigorous and original creators who live and work in every quarter of the globe. At the heart of the new movement is a hardy little band of inspired pioneers: Japan's Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon); Sweden's Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries); France's Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Man Amour) and Francois Truffaut (The 400 Blows); Italy's Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita), Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura) and Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers); England's Tony Richardson (Look Back in Anger); Poland's Andrzej Wajda (Kanal...
...look at me, you'd never guess I used to be a dull guy," he says. "My idea of a wild time was Kool-Aid and oatmeal cookies. At parties, I stayed in the room with the coats." Dipping toward the sick, he tells about a friend, the author of What to Do in Case of Peace, who prophesied that on May 1, 1951, the world would come to an end. "For him it did," Vernon remembers. "He was eating in the Automat and the little glass door snapped down and broke his neck. That night in the hospital...
...audience greeted Soprano Maria Battinelli's quavering first-act cadenzas with unrestrained boos and whistles that served to unnerve both singers and musicians. The singers soon lost their pitch, and the boys in the orchestra joined them in helpless cacophony as the audience went wild in fury. Only the night sticks of the carabinieri induced peace after the melee, and everyone went home agreeing that it was a lousy evening-but viva Verdi, anyway...