Word: ponderer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Voracious Appetite. That is a question that programming Vice Presidents Len Goldberg (ABC), Mike Dann (CBS) and Mort Werner (NBC) ponder in the small hours of the night. Their major problem is that, in prime time alone, the three of them are responsible for filling 75 hours a week. "We do not suffer," Goldberg says, in the understatement of the minute, "from an overdose of good shows." That is because TV obviously suffers from a severe underdose of talent. There are just not enough good writers and performers to satisfy television's voracious appetite, so even the best entertainers...
...this serves to give Stephen Longstreet the chance to let his near-assimilated Jewish-Americans ponder the quality of their Judaism and their allegiance to it. They also get drawn into a fierce proxy fight for Mama's bank account, and one of the characters even drifts behind the Iron Curtain for a little daring-do. Longstreet, who has written several screenplays and a hit musical (High Button Shoes) as well as eight other novels, is an old hand at story spinning. The pattern here is familiar, but it is a nice piece of goods all the same...
...future, after all, is what the stock market is really about. And in their offices in the financial canyon of lower Manhattan, James Thomson and his Thundering Herd constantly ponder the possibilities of tomorrow, next month, next year and next decade. In their own expansion plans, Thomson & Co. are betting heavily on a bright market future. "The biggest problem facing Merrill Lynch right now," says Thomson, "is to be in a position to handle bigger volume when it comes. And we believe it is coming...
...lawn in order to think better. For this is the first and only goal of a "university" that has neither students nor classes, and conducts seminars that no one is obliged to attend. Now 36 years old, the Institute is a unique haven for scholars to think, ponder and grow wise, shielded from life's more mundane distractions and freed from normal academic obligations. "The one thing we will never ask you," Institute Director J. Robert Oppenheimer tells newcomers, is 'What are you doing...
...deny that the History Department ought to consider changes in its tutorial program carefully. But carefully is not a synonym of slowly. The Department should begin to study the junior faculty's recommendations immediately. While it prepares to ponder over the proposals, hundreds of students in the University's largest department will be receiving an education that is not as good as it might...