Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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September 4--I wonder if the Volunteers who do this work full time feel, continously, the boredom, discouragement, apathy and alienation I feel in this village? I find I'm sleeping about 11 hours a day. We tour the village for an hour and a half every morning and night. Aside from that--nothing. On the rare occasions when I hear two people in the village speaking French I have a leap of recognition and pleasure, as if it were my native language...
...open sea, the exile's cabin cruiser began taking water; a U.S. Coast Guard cutter hovering near by had to rescue everyone aboard. In all, the Coast Guard picked up more than 100 Cubans from a dozen boats swamped by the rough seas. "You just wonder how many went down unnoticed," said an exile, who lost his own boat 50 miles south of Key West. And then there was the distraught exile who could not get up the price of a boat to Cuba to get his family out, and unsuccessfully tried to hijack a National Airlines Electra bound...
...family was down on the ranch, but French fashion's growing Boy Wonder Yves St. Laurent got a special White House tour anyway. "Very bright, very gay, tres joli," murmured Yves. "The colors are very different from the colors one sees in Europe in such a house." Someone asked how he was enjoying his job in dress designing and such. "I theenk," whispered Yves, 29, fluffing his long, bushy sideburns, "I theenk if I could live my life over again, I would like to be a beatneek...
...imperialism will make more and more sense to the Third World; its offer to help underdeveloped nations "liberate" themselves from the West will become increasingly meaningful. And those who rely on the U.S. for defense against Communism may well ponder the costs of that "defense." We can only wonder with Langguth when he writes: "Will Thailand be reassured by a victory in Vietnam if it is achieved at a great cost to the civilian population...
...eyes, he stubbornly fought on, even though his cause was hopeless. After 15 rounds, the judges' verdict was unanimous for Tiger. Giardello had no excuses. "I wanted to show New York a good fight," he said, and announced that he was retiring. At that, Champion Tiger could only wonder rhetorically: "How can he live if he does not fight...