Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again. And although it is understandable that in general the Library should wish to have books return to the shelves once a month, many books used for thesis research are frequently in extremely small demand. Because the one-month non-renewable policy is so inconvenient for thesis writers, we wonder, in their case, if Widener would not consider altering its rule...
...final form, the Commission's report was amazing in its detail, remarkable in its judicious caution and restraint, yet utterly convincing in its major conclusions. The wonder was not that the Commission took such a long time to complete its report but that it did so much so swiftly...
...wonder Mingus ever became a jazz musician at all. His stepmother, a member of the Holiness Church in Los Angeles, permitted only church music in the home, so Mingus was eight before he even knew jazz existed. One night he secretly turned on his father's radio and heard Ellington. He took to playing first the trombone, then the cello, till Veteran Bassist Red Callender got him to start on the bass...
Teen-agers are not the only ones swooning over the Beatles. Businessmen are also getting giddy-and no wonder. The Beatles' second American tour, which ended last week, grossed $1,000,000. In only six weeks, their movie, A Hard Day's Night, has reaped $5,800,000 in U.S. rentals. Ten million Beatle records have been sold, and the group has just attained its third gold disk (each officially designating 1,000,000 sales for a single release) to surpass Elvis Presley's two. Last week Britain's Electric & Musical Industries, the world...
Ordinarily, the discovery of humor in a humor magazine offers little cause for astonishment and Freshmen--to whom this merry September number is dedicated--may wonder what the hullabaloo is all aout. The sordid veritas is that out 'Poonie friends have churned out, with alarming consistency, flabby issues of insipid verse and effete prose; they have nourished an involuted, exclusive brand of sneery-smile humor (nothing off-color, of course) and the result has been that, m beyond the arid confines of Lampoon Castle and Hasty Pudding, I have scarcely ever heard anyone laugh out loud at a Lampoon...