Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mile cruise, the young (31) prince himself was at the helm, sporting a month-old growth of beard and looking every inch a blue-water sailor. Cheering crowds of Monégasques lined the waterfront to greet him and to gaze in wonder at the deck load of souvenirs he had brought back: cages of live chimpanzees, baboons, gibbons, and marmosets, a pelican, an egret, two gazelles and six baby caymans, all destined for a new national...
...that ignores the divisions of the stock 32-bar chorus. The notes grow progressively more dissonant. Brubeck's head weaves in a wide arc. His fingers seem to take on a life of their own. At this point, both musicians and laymen in the audience are apt to wonder whether Brubeck will ever be able to make it back to home base. He creates an illusion of danger, as if he were a race driver "who," says Dave, "is going to stay out there until he drives faster than anyone else. He's going to crash or make...
...Shoeless Wonder. In the Brubeck home at Concord, Calif, (pop. 12,493), his mother kept five pianos. Dave was playing the piano by the time he was four; he started searching almost as soon as his fingers touched the keys. Instead of practicing the method of famed Piano Pedagogue Tobias Matthay, used by his mother for her stream of pupils, little David spent every minute that the keyboard was free picking out pieces of his own. He tried harder to please his father (who gave him four cows when he was eight and called Dave his "partner"); later he learned...
Knowing this, Drs. John Kurtzke and Louis Berlin jumped to no conclusions when a multiple sclerosis patient, treated with isoniazid for bed sores, began to speak so that they could again understand him. Instead, they tested isoniazid, the TB wonder drug, on 30 patients at the Veterans Administration Hospital in the Bronx. Three received no benefit, but 27 improved, and by a wider margin than previous M.S. patients who had been given other treatments. Most encouraging was the fact that four patients improved when they were given the drug and relapsed when it was stopped, then improved again when...
...remains significant that a 20th century historian, viewing the Age of Faith, ultimately sees in it mainly "intolerance." Reading this verdict-delivered in history's bloodiest century, in which tolerance of evil has done at least as much harm as intolerance of good-the reader is bound to wonder just who is being self-righteous...