Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...document read to us is marked by a high serenity and gentle philosophy which I hesitate to affront. I have tasted this philosophy and appreciated its nobility and I wonder if my philosophy is fit to face...
...with an eye for color, a feeling for the genre, and a playful sense of humor 4 grant that there is none such might bring out an American Chauve-Souris which could tour Europe with notable success; but nobody would listen to it, though their eyes might burst in wonder, for only in Russia could he find such voices as those that enchant or dominate the air of Balieff's Bat. From the piercing shriek of Katinka, through the lyric beauty of the soprano, the sombre resignation of the contralto, the passion of the tenor, the expansiveness of the baritone...
Norton Georgetown Wonder...
Reading the voluminous and for the most part short-sightedly partisan controversy concerning the departure of Professor Baker for Yale has moved me to wonder whether it would not be appropriate to say something for the other side. Practically all that I have read has stressed the so-called "forcing out" and horrible treatment of Professor Baker at the hands of Harvard University--and by "Harvard" is meant the head of the University, although the vociferous commiserates of Professor Baker do not always have the courage to say so. I should like to propose a few questions...
...pleased to style her. That she had intelligence the author infers from certain letters (never examined by any other biographer) written by Fannie Brawne to Keats' sister after his death: "Let us admit, once and for all, that Keats made a most uneasy lover. . . . It would have been small wonder if Fanny Brawne occasionally asked herself whether this exacting and excitable young man could make any woman really happy...