Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sterile conformity of thought and behavior. Richer was born 30 years too late because the school system now is interested in only making plowboys or well-oiled cogs in the social machine. As to the teaching of the study of Communism in the school system, it is scant wonder at the success of brainwashing in Korea, when a high-school teacher is not permitted to discuss capitalism v. Communism . . . ROBERT D. BEACH Carmel, Indiana...
...wonder whether this case is another sample of that Indonesian ''patriotism and wisdom of leadership" which Mr. Dulles was loud in praise of at his press conference in Djakarta. A. BERT VAN ASTEN Oak Park...
...piano has its anxious note. Some 50 winters have weathered Cagney hard, and he begins to wonder if his filly won't "stray off" when the "grass . . . gets a little too thin around here." She says she won't, but then they quarrel about the "hangin' fever" that sets in whenever Cagney sees a rustler. The girl runs away with a stable boy (Don Dubbins), but she soon comes back-it's such fun to bang on that piano. "Don't worry," Cagney comforts the boy, "a fellow doesn't die from his first...
...novel, Un Certain Sourire (A Certain Smile), written in two months, is the new literary sensation of Paris. FRANCOISE SAGAN REPEATS HER OFFENSE AND . . . WINS ! headlined one weekly. In Paris' Le Monde, venerable critic Emile Henriot wrote: "At her flying start two years ago, we could wonder if this 18-year-old girl, bitterly instructed . . . would be the woman of only one book, this terribly disturbing Bonjour Tristesse . . . We had to wait for her second book. Here it is . . . and it is perfect...
...abortion, and unhappy Melford is let off his hook. Frankie runs out on Constance, but she is still hooked in the heart, and pitches herself from the church tower. What this trite tale of love and death is intended to light up hardly matters. But women may wonder what Novelist Bates means by letting the men off so easily: Melford ends up with a comfortable widower's life, Frankie comes back to town to cad about with not one, but several, fluttery innocents. It's a man's world...