Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tamayo an artist? No wonder they won't have him in Mexico...
...already, through the highceilinged, 48-year-old Our Lady of the Angels grammar school in West Side Chicago, many of the 1,200 youngsters were beginning to turn away from books, fidget in their seats, wonder if the 3 p.m. dismissal bell would ever ring. In fifth-grade geography on the second floor, the teacher thought that the room was getting too warm. Said she: 'Why don't some of you boys open the windows?" In fourth-grade arithmetic, a boy blurted: "Sister, I smell smoke." Smoke began to seep under classroom doors, through open transoms. A fire...
After a summer and autumn of gloom and despair, the ugly American has almost completely lost confidence in his ability to distill meaning from world affairs. His nation stumbles through the wilderness to cope with crisis succeeding crisis, to preserve a makeshift peace. It is no wonder then, that he has become disenchanted with the symbols that have traditionally expressed his unspoiled optimism: tolerance, dignity of man, democracy...
...heroic style that the role of Radames demands, and Gobbi was far from his compelling best. Only Mezzo Simionato sang with the range, color and fire that her fans have come to expect of her. The voices of the supporting singers were lost in the huge house. "No wonder he can't sing," said one observer watching the messenger to the Pharaoh noiselessly moving his mouth. "The poor guy has just run all the way from Thebes...
CHARLES LUCKMAN, onetime wonder-boy boss of Lever Bros., has bought out Partner William L. Pereira, and each will form his own West Coast architectural business. Insiders say Luckman's razzle-dazzle rubbed against conservative Pereira...