Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Some years ago, Marcel Duchamp himself said: "Movements begin as a group formation and end with the scattering of individuals." Yet the exhibit showed something else about the oldtimers. What once seemed sick now seems strangely sane: the surrealists were wild but seldom undisciplined, and with their hoses, their hens and their bicycles, they knew how to laugh at themselves...
Goodbye to a River, by John Graves. The Brazos River in Texas was to be ruined by power dams, and the author, who writes well of the region's wildlife and wild living, tells of a three-week solo canoe trip he made as a farewell gesture. Summoned by Bells, by John Betjeman. In a charming autobiography in verse, the author tells of a boyhood and young manhood that were unremarkable except for the pain, joy and insight that go with being a poet...
Ingmar Bergman has produced another tantalizing film. Hampered by a scenario (as usual, Bergman's own) that is full of tricks rather than the wisdom of Wild Strauberries or The Seventh Seal, The Magician nonetheless has an impact even greater than these better-written works...
...their public opinion as to get their way without any reciprocal concessions, unilateral or multilateral. By threatening to send rockets against the United States if we harm Cuba or against our allies if they let us mount U2 flights from their soil; by putting the squeeze on Berlin; by wild out bursts at the United Nations which may suggest to many people that Krushchev is as mad as Hitler--in these and other ways, the Soviet rulers may so terrify and disorganize the peoples of the West that they will compel their governments to give in without reciprocal concessions...
...lead narrowed, all the Crimson's talents seemed to disappear. The sharp passing became wild, the tight defense became lazy and foul-prone, and the shooting was terrible...