Word: marveled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spear-carrying tribesmen of Papua New Guinea-homeland of the cargo cults and of islanders who once regarded L.B.J. as a demigod-have a new Western hero to worship. No, not the Fonz or Jimmy Carter, but the masked comic-strip marvel who lives in the Skull Cave of Bangalla-namely, the Phantom...
...Debs (whom she voted for in 1920, the year she was first eligible to vote). In many ways she personifies both the morality and the organizational weakness that beset those early, turn-of-the-century American socialists advocating a theory of nonviolent parliamentary socialism. And today, while one may marvel at the perennial hope of the women it is harder to share her optimism. This is not to say that Luscomb is insincere. It is simply that her vision of the future trusts perhaps too much in the natural cooperativeness of free men to convince the average, cynical city-dweller...
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Disneyland after 22 years remains a marvel of technological ingenuity, Waltgeist and two-hour waits. By contrast, only six miles away, is Knott's Berry Farm, which began as just that, is still run by the family and is eminently human. Rides and shows are built on Old West themes. In San Diego, 55 miles from Disneyland, is Sea World, the best-planned, best-stocked oceanarium...
...players invest the slapdash plot with wit and perfect timing. Wheeling on crutches necessitated by a recent stage fall, Lloyd's Bill has a saturnine piratical mien worthy of Long John Silver. Though slightly reedy of voice, Meryl Streep renders the Brecht lines with impeccable intelligence. The marvel of the evening is the Kurt Weill score, arguably superior to that of The Threepenny Opera...
Does this mean, as some observers marvel, that two kids from rural Georgia are "running the country," or are "the second and third most powerful figures in the Government"? No. For all their breezy irreverence, despite their almost unlimited license to tell the President what they think, their actual powers are circumscribed-another illustration of Carter's canny use of people...