Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doty Committee said in conclusion, "If this report has done anything to stimulate . . . individual commitments to the shaping and giving of Gen Ed courses, it will have more than served' its purpose." But we wonder if a report which defines Gen Ed vaguely, almost negatively, which suggests contradictory goals, which formulates rules that requires students to take only two Gen Ed courses will draw the needed support from the Faculty...
...wonder. In its plot, Fail Safe is strangely similar to Peter George's Red Alert, the 1958 novel on which Dr. Strangelove is based. When Fail-Safe (the book was sold to Hollywood but the hyphen apparently was not) was published in 1962, Novelist George sued Novelists Burdick and Wheeler for plagiarism. They settled out of court for undisclosed considerations. In any case, the issue is now academic; both pictures were produced by the same company (Columbia...
...book, and which you read in Esquire a couple of months ago. Remember that the article involved taking lists of names, such as "Dwight Eisenhower, Bat Man and Jackson Pollack," and putting them under headings like "Old Sentimentalists," and then taking other lists of names, such as "Bobby Kennedy, Wonder Woman and Jeanne Moreau," and putting them under headings like "New Sentimentalists," and then printing them neatly with lots of white space all around. Second, imagine how this article would have been if it had been about Extremism. Third, write the book, which is 32 pages long. Fourth, read...
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...This is a problem we think about. We wonder what to do," he said. "We're certainly aware that we're part of the University, and I'm determined that [graduates of the College] will not be placed at a disadvantage." He did not specify, however, what steps, if any, the Law School might take...