Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev? Who else makes us spend almost half our national budget for defense? Who else makes every civilized person wonder when the H-bombs will drop? Who might turn the world into an armed camp and return everyone to the Army? In 1956, he eclipses all others...
When is a Communist not a Communist? Are there Communists in various degrees like good, better, best? Or bad, worse, worst? Or from mild to fanatic? I wonder if Gomulka is less a Communist for having divorced the parent country, or has he perhaps discovered a secret Utopia that compels him to remain essentially a Communist? It is very strange...
...Wonder What Became of Me (Anita Ellis; Epic LP). A progression of songs threaded on a first-person narrative. Songstress Ellis pretends to recall her childhood, lisps her way through If I Had a Ribbon Bow, works her way through giddy happiness (I Ain't Got No Shame), through fierce, frightening love (I Love You Porgy), and on to final, hopeless reflections about her life in the title song. Songstress Ellis has a flexible voice, a flair for drama, sings well, puts the fantasy across handily...
...past ten years, as Crowell-Collier went from a profit of $6,500,000 to heavy losses, managing editors had swept in and out of office like French Premiers. More than $10 million in new capital had been pumped into the company since 1953, when aging Wonder Boy Paul Smith, now 48, came in from the money-losing San Francisco Chronicle as a $40,000-a-year troubleshooter. Smith raised money and tried to make Collier's a "magazine in depth." Instead, it went deeper into debt. Transformed into a fortnightly in 1953, Collier's lost more than...
BEYOND THE AEGEAN, by llias Ve-nezis. The lyrical recollection of a Greek boy's pre-World War I childhood in Anatolia. One of the year's most attractive novels-a remem brance of things past, explored with joyous wonder, grace and dignity...