Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LASSIE (CBS, 7-7:30 p.m.). The doggie-wonder goes it alone with an all-animal cast in this humanless, narrationless, dialogueless Lassie-venture. Repeat...
...Tilsit in Prussia. They embraced; they exchanged decorations and pledges of friendship. Like De Gaulle, Alexander hoped to play the role of peacemaker and to divide the European continent between Russia and France. Yet by 1812 the Emperor was sleeping in the Kremlin in a burning Moscow. I wonder whether De Gaulle is the historical successor of Alexander I rather than of Napoleon Bonaparte...
...little wonder, then, that many of the trappings of American life-and some of its altitudes-have spread around the globe. Still, Ho Chi Minh certainly does not smoke American cigarettes because they are American ("He didn't change to a French cigarette, did he?" crowed a State Department aide); like millions of others who have made U.S. cigarettes the most universally preferred, he smokes them simply because they are better than most of what is available. Coca-Cola is the universal symbol of Americanization, but it was the distribution, merchandising and advertising techniques of the American company...
Most Americans willingly accept the notion that physical fitness is valuable for just about everyone. Now, Stanford University Drs. Jose Montero and Kenneth Smyth have the audacity to wonder if it is such a good thing...
...assigned him to compose, score and direct the music for a $3,000,000 Jeanette MacDonald movie. Since then, he has plucked four Oscars for scoring Gigi, Porgy and Bess, Irma La Douce and My Fair Lady. Now Previn is changing, and so is his career. "The boy-wonder thing is over," he mused last week. "I have decided to concentrate on conducting to the exclusion of the Hollywood thing...