Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WILD (AM-1090), a small sunrise-to-sunset station, was able to fill this role in the '60s, as the late J. Anthony Lukas '55, a former Crimson executive, chronicles in his classic book on Boston, Common Ground. In particular, Lukas notes that in the wake of Dr. Martin Luther King's death, WILD suspended its usual rhythm-and-blues format and devoted its hours to news and commentary on the assassination. While numerous black callers pelted the radio station with calls for an end to integration, Lukas' attention is drawn to a white woman from Lexington who called...
...Boston, WILD tries to fill the role of community station, but it is too small and too poor to do it. Jam'n has the resources, but, if anything, is anti-community. Its main selling point is its "Jam-Scams," essentially a grown-up version of a middle school prank, in which Baltazar torments his victims by telling them (falsely) that their cars will be impounded or that their houses will be foreclosed upon. The scammed person invariably gets angrier and angrier, leading to bleeped-out expletives, giggles from the 'Zar, and finally a promise from the scammed...
...while Jam'n's meaningless pop and Baltazar's endless scams may appeal to the pre-teen and adolescent crowd, the continued existence of WILD (now in its 50th year) and the success of black-oriented programming on local college radio stations-such as this weekend's "history of hip hop" orgy on WHRB--indicate that there is a Boston market for serious urban music...
...estimated time of arrival for Christ's Second Coming. Many churches are worried that false predictions of the Second Coming will undermine the authority of biblical teachings generally. In October, bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America issued a pastoral letter to their 5 million members, dismissing "wild prophecies" and declaring that the third Christian millennium should be welcomed with hope...
...dedicated to fair play and consensus, why has his investigation--which dragged bit players before grand juries, interrogated a White House aide about his media contacts, issued a subpoena for bookstore records and forced Secret Service agents to testify about the man they protect--so often seemed wild and obsessive...