Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). There are Robert Taylor and the usual miniature whale, the mutiny on the blood-slopped foredeck, the bad harpooner called Silva. the nice native girl (Betta St. John) and the sunken treasure-in this case so palpably a ball bearing that audiences may wonder why all the actors believe it to be a large black pearl...
...Metropolitan Opera, where she had sung the young shepherd role that evening in Tannhäuser. Baritone John . Raitt confidently managed the always difficult job of making a masculine hero of Prince Charming, and top honors in the superb cast went to Sir Cedric Hardwicke as the wonder-working Golux who came by his magical power because he was the "son of a witch." There was also dimly at hand a satisfying monster called the Todal who is made of lip, looks like a blob of glup, sounds like rabbits screaming, and smells of old, unopened rooms. The Todal...
...Medical Researcher Dr. Albert Schatz, 33, professor at Pennsylvania's National Agricultural College, for his role in the discovery of the wonder drug, streptomycin (TIME...
...Governor's shocked indignation impressed voters at first, perhaps, but the brutal conduct of the raid quickly disillusioned most and invited swarms of anti-Pyle editorials in Arizona's newspapers. One must wonder whether the satisfaction of moral absolutists in Phoenix is worth the problem caused in a hamlet two hundred miles from the nearest "civilized" metropolis of ten thousand people...
...atom to the frontiers of the universe, is that, like poetry, like philosophy, it reveals depths and mysteries beyond, and . . . quite different from the ordinary, matter-of-fact world we are used to. Science has given back to the universe that quality of inexhaustible richness and unexpectedness and wonder which at one time it seemed to have taken away from...