Word: ponderer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could ask coach Carole Kleinfelder, but if she knew, the cagers might be 9-3. You could also ponder the statistics, but they only offer more confusing contradictions...
...Oncle would be a trifle of a film; a sweet, melodramatic little story. But, thanks to the good doctor, Resnais doesn't have to rely on a compelling plot or intriguing characters to hold our attention. We needn't strain ourselves looking for clues to motivations, we needn't ponder the out-come of events. Laborit knows all, tells all. Resnais displays his utter confidence in Laborit's theories when he has his actors don white rat heads to walk through some of their scenes. The director's joke couldn't be more clever--or more blatant in its message...
Ingmar Bergman is nothing if not thorough when he sets about one of his psychological workups, and his title here hints at deeper conclusions than most of his characters reach on the subject that they ponder. If they are "marionettes," then it follows that they are controlled by invisible strings, by forces that the individual himself cannot perceive and that must elude even wise analysis. If this is so, then the whole effort to possess someone else, even in the radical way that Peter used, is absurd, as is the effort to understand it in conventional moral and emotional terms...
...Frank Trippett suggests in his Essay [Oct. 20], it can do no harm to ponder the price society pays for the abuse of trust. Americans are saturated with all forms of impressions that stem from the inability to separate fantasy from fact. Honesty is the best policy...
...Ponder also warned that any Third World center will flounder without intense student participation. "Given the obstacles any center faces to begin with, it is much easier to take it away than to make it stay if students don't participate heavily. That's the major problem...