Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wellesley, and doubtlessly soon in in other places, middle class people will strike out defensively at their own schools and teachers. They wish that the schools were turning their children back towards them, and instead it is the place where they make the contacts with others that they fail to make with them...
Through soul and hard rock, METCO and Columbia, and repeatedly brought home by Time, Life and Newsweek, the parents of Wellesley are realizing that they are no longer sure where their children are going. They wish they could stop them from moving so fast and so far, and keep them happy and polite in Wellesley...
...most ruinous adventures and usurpations." For nearly 30 years, said De Gaulle, he had led France toward its destiny; "I am ready to do it again." But, he added, "this time, especially this time, I need?yes, I need?the French people to tell me that this is their wish." It was an extraordinary and almost touching admission from De Gaulle. Then he explained that he intended to submit some time in June a referendum to the voters in which he would spell out his proposals for modifying French life...
...wine merchant of prose-witty, luxuriant, Latinate-Rolfe poured out a minor masterpiece of wish fulfillment in his novel Hadrian VII, an account of how a once-rejected candidate for the priesthood was astonishingly elected Pope out of a clear blue Roman sky. Now Hadrian has been skillfully dramatized by Peter Luke, who also relies on A.J.A. Symons' biography of Rolfe, The Quest for Corvo. The result is an effulgent theatrical success in a wan London dramatic season...
Although he did not wish to ignore the need for black faculty, Roskovsky claimed that raiding the top-name professors from other universities "would not be socially useful. We should increase the supply of qualified black scholars...