Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Pall to Pernod. When Charlie was eleven, the year he learned to drive a car on the farm, a worried teacher told his father: "Charlie is capable in any direction. But I wonder if he'll ever be able to concentrate on any one thing." To the greater glory of Twenty One, the fear proved well grounded. In Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, Charlie Van Doren studied the clarinet to become a concert artist. But though he ran up a 95 average and became the school's first student to qualify for college...
Open Door? The approach of the tidal wave has also had an effect on publicly supported institutions. Those that are required by law or tradition to take in every taxpayer's child with a high-school diplo ma within their states have begun to wonder whether they can expand rapidly enough to maintain their open-door policy. Some have already answered...
...life, and genuine warmth is reserved for work. And yet, at the worst of his extravertigo, Bernstein never lost sight of his first principles: truth to his word, loyalty to friends and family, devotion to music for its own sake. Nor did he ever lose his highly engaging, childlike wonder at being famous and doing exciting things, like meeting movie stars or the New York Philharmonic's august board of directors...
...Bernstein knows that "in the next year or two. when I grow up, I'll have to decide what to do. It used to come so easy. Now I get tired." The wonder boy has become the man who wonders...
...like watching a woman knit." Is it the moment for a powerful initial attack? Lennie will deliver a stroke that is worthy of a medieval headsman (in St. Louis once, he delivered an introductory downbeat so overwhelmingly spectacular that every man in the orchestra sat jaw-dropped in wonder, unable to make a sound). And best of all, as Reporter Paul Moor observed, "in the final rapturous climax of the Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, he will scowl and thrash the orchestra up to the peroration, and then?while the men go on playing, of course?he will stand stricken...