Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life. A new Calif arose; but the Sultanate was ground to dust by the puissant heel of Democracy. It was to be only a matter of time before the sole of the same foot was to crush the Califate, the holy office of the Successor to the Prophet. No wonder there was turmoil in Islam...
...bluish bloom on black cheeks, who came to stay with them. The blacks live so near the earth their roots go down into it like the roots of trees. Mrs. Peterkin understands these twisted roots, their fumbling, struggling, grappling, and the secret chemistries that work in them? sorrow and wonder, sweetness and regret, life and love and death...
...outstanding feature, I agree with the editors, is the Class Poem, 1924, by Oliver La Farge. I wonder whether the author has been reading Edwin Arlington Robinson's poems; certainly he has caught something of that master's pattern and manner, his directness, his vigor, his telling expressiveness. Naturally enough Mr. La Farge has been unable to maintain the exquisite balance of form and substance that makes Robinson's best poems so exactly right, so stark and simple and inevitable; yet when Mr. La Farge falters into prose, his idea gives sufficient impetus to rush the reader along. Without lapsing...
...must say that the cover on the present seventh wonder is exceptionally fine and worthy of the standard Mr. Child has long since set for himself. Having peered behind it, however, we cannot, unlike Alice, recall any adventures--no, we must find the Carpenter and shed another tear. . . . Swallowing hard, we escape from the prologue to the editorial page. What, O Lampy, Ibis, Blot! What has become of the magic pen? Where is the gentle flow of easy banter and the singular style that once outran alike sophomoric itchings and threadiness of subject? Such a bare veneer...
...wonder what Mr. Upton Sinclair who so scathingly attacks American colleges and universities on the charge that they are controlled by ultra-conservative financiers who want only "accepted", doctrines taught and who smack not at all of the liberalism and broad-mindedness needed by leaders of our education,--we wonder what Mr. Upton Sinclair will do when he hears that Mr. Howard Eliott '81 has been chosen as the new president of the Board of Overseers at Harvard? No doubt he will clap his hands and shout from the house-tops: "I told you it was so! Here...