Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pronouncement that the U.S. farm program should be directed "to the small farmer who needs help most." Some corporate farms harvest "as high as $11 million a year from the Government," Williams said. "And I notice from the list that the Mississippi State Penitentiary gets over $175,000. I wonder how any state penitentiary could be described as a small farmer...
...wonder is that Suzy is not shaking too. She never rests; she takes as many as 50 phone calls a day, goes to as many as six parties an evening, all in the interest of turning out six columns a week for 60 newspapers. Her fame has been growing ever since 1963, when she moved from the defunct New York Daily Mirror to the New York Journal-American, where she replaced Cholly Knickerbocker, who had been indicted by the U.S. for failing to register as an agent of the Dominican Republic...
...form to the principle of collegiality that was approved by the council last fall?namely, that the bishops, as descendants of the Apostles, collectively share ruling power over the church with the Pope. At first, the bishops and their theologians were delighted with the announcement. Then they began to wonder. Would Paul give the synod a share of the policy making powers that are now tightly clutched by the conservative, Italian dominated Roman Curia? Or would the synod become the church's equivalent of the subservient Soviet parliament ?an assembly summoned only to approve, not to decide? The answer...
Strange Voices. In his opening address to the bishops, the Pope declined to comment on any of the schemata on the fourth session's agenda. "Our silence has been deliberate," said he. "It is a sign of our unwillingness to compromise your freedom of opinion." Still, some council observers wonder how the bishops could help being influenced by the warnings against imprudence that the Pope has issued this year. In August, for example, he warned against "strange and confused voices" even among the bishops who have been questioning "principles, laws and traditions to which the church is firmly bound...
...warning against excess seems to be largely an expression of his cautious and gloomy nature. Last week, for example, on a visit to the catacombs of Domitilla, he compared the persecuted Christians of old to those who today live in "nations with atheistic and totalitarian" governments. "I sometimes wonder if Paul isn't lacking in the virtue of hope," says one Jesuit...