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...word story of Max - last name unknown, emotional state tumultuous, willingness to obey dubious - has been a bedtime favorite of wild things everywhere (and their parents) since not long after its 1963 publication. That makes nearly five decades' worth of fans, many of whom have been harboring the disquieting fear that the universality of Maurice Sendak's Max, who so exquisitely embodies the inherent storminess of all small beings, would be marred by Spike Jonze's cinematic adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. (See TIME's photo-essay "Kids' Books Come to Life...
...people expect you to use it? I'm never sure what they expect. I am personally a relatively formal man, and I wear a suit every day. I don't know if they expect me to be some wild and crazy guy because I wrote this book, so I don't know if they see me and are surprised that I might use the word. I'm just not sure. But there's no reason why I wouldn't. It's part of our speech...
...became very close friends; by the end of the year I’d learned how to wake up at 9:45 and be sitting in Sever before the Mem Church bells even stopped ringing. My single was glorious. The dining hall was amazing. My fellow Matherites were wild and crazy in the best of ways. In hindsight, there was obviously no reason to leave, but I decided to throw caution to the wind (hey, this was the pre-financial-crisis era, everyone was doing it) and transferred. I had no specific direction, and only cursorily ranked my preferences...
After the CEB announced that its seemingly benign event would include a showing of Where the Wild Things Are, Mather’s own wild things were unleashed on the House’s open e-mail list...
After the CEB announced that its seemingly benign event would include a showing of Where the Wild Things Are, Mather’s own wild things were unleashed on the House’s open e-mail list...