Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knee. At six, he was giving his father the odds of a rook and winning easily. Sammy came to the U.S. when he was nine, and promptly defeated a platoon of Army officers in simultaneous play at West Point. Then, when he was eleven, someone discovered that the boy wonder had never attended school. Merchant Julius Rosenwald, a Patzer and philanthropist, soon remedied this defect. Six months of tutoring brought Reshevsky up to high-school level and he went on to graduate from the University of Chicago. Except for a flair for mathematics, he was just an average student...
...down a rug and on the rug a baby of about a year old. Then she returned to a seat, well sheltered by some laurel bushes from the spring breeze, still cool, and opened a book. The baby lay on its back for some minutes, gazing with calm wonder at a sky like a forget-me-not with small thin clouds like puffs of frosty breath. No doubt it had forgotten the sky in the last few minutes and was interested to rediscover it. But at last it grew bored, and tried to roll over. To do this, it held...
...Johnny, Robert Shackelton has an even harder time making himself understood. And worse, he delivers his lines in such a grim way that you wonder what the other laughing people--Miss Blondell and her lover, played with amusing awkwardness by John Vivyan--are doing in the same play...
Reading Monday's issue I was such by the endorsement of Adlai for President, as contrasted with an apparent scandal in the Young Democrats. If looks as though the young democrats are indeed taking after the old ones. I wonder just why the CRIMSON feels justified in endorsing the old ones...
...promises were kept/Or one could weep because another wept." But even this poem is all too predictable to anyone familiar with Auden's work. Still more predictable are Marianne Moore spinning fine verbal webs, Wallace Stevens in a suavely elegiac mood, E. E. Cummings broken out in lyrical wonder. As for the younger poets, most are earnestly prosy, weary beyond their years, and cautiously derivative...