Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official on the podium flashed a signal to the 50-piece Lou Breese orchestra to strike up some noisy numbers to drown out the chants. In this case, with stunning inappropriateness after a debate on bombing, it was the Air Force's song, Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder. The band ripped into Happy Days Are Here Again in the midst of a somber passage on Viet Nam during Humphrey's acceptance speech...
...abroad as they have in the past year. Last summer Israel smashed the Arabs, Red China exploded its first H-bomb, Johnson met Kosygin in New Jersey, the Bolivians killed Che Guevara, the Nigerian civil war began destroying Black Africa's most promising nation, and Negro rioters ran wild in Detroit and Newark...
Among Africa's first known tribal groups were the artistically talented Bushmen, who scratched out their lively rock drawings of hunters and wild animals in the Stone Age. Some 7,000 years ago, the Hamites came across the Suez, bringing a rudimentary knowledge of agriculture, and soon they intermarried with Bushmen and early Negroes to produce new races. Over the continent's vast distance, these groups scattered into the polyglot tribes that fractionalize Africa today. Each went its own way. Some tribes raised empires based on hereditary rulers. In other tribal cultures, outstanding men or women and sometimes even children...
TRUE GRIT, by Charles Portis. An uproarious period piece about a 14-year-old girl who turns the wild frontier topsy-turvy while avenging the murder...
...different from the rock sound, which is more wild and vivid. Two of the songs in Big Pink do have a little bit of anger in them that the others don't have. It is interesting that these are the two written with Dylan. "Tears of Rage" and "This Wheel's on Fire" give a hint of how Dylan got from Blond on Blond to John Wesley Harding...