Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bright Future. Why did the wave occur? "I don't know why," said Humphrey. "It isn't local, attributable to any one newspaper or anything of that kind. I have been trying to think what it is. I just wonder if perhaps it isn't because this Eisenhower Administration has done such a tremendously successful job on the big things-on the things that got him elected. Each of us is thinking of some of the more minor things that we would like to have handled just the way we would have done, and one after another...
...hooded owl peeking over a fence" or "a pregnant butterfly." But once completed, the daring structure, with its gleaming white concrete roof, soft rose and blue walls, got rave reviews. Der Tag called it "a symphony of colors and forms"; the Socialist Telegraf headlined the news, WONDER BUILDING AT THE SPREE; BERLIN'S NEW SYMBOL...
...gave up her own early attempts at composition as "useless music" has not tried to shape a special musical style, stands first of all for intellect and discipline. In an age given to sprawling, undisciplined "self-expression," this has been a much needed corrective. Critics of Teacher Boulanger nonetheless wonder what the work of many contemporary composers might have sounded like without the apron strings of her cool, brainy, French-intellectual influence. But, says Nadia Boulanger sternly: "Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains...
...many physicians," says Dr. Riggins, "overlook the fact that almost as many new TB cases (about 100,000 a year) are now being reported as before the wonder-drug age. To hasten the elimination of tuberculosis, we need to vaccinate infants, children and certain young adults in areas of high incidence as well as those individuals who are unavoidably exposed [i.e., doctors and nurses...
...composes steadily every morning, and the wonder is that Cowell is as experimental now as he was when he was famed as a bad boy of U.S. music. "Every composition," he says, "is a fresh experiment, a mixture of the familiar and the new. I have more ideas now than I can ever...