Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Critics cavil that not enough countries are represented at the New York World's Fair. Such critics, said Robert Moses, 75, offhandedly plucking a barb from the bulrushes, wonder why there is no exhibit from such as "the Sultan of Kuwait with his bottomless oil, Cadillacs, harems, heat, sand flies and camel dung." That kind of joke is as old as Moses, but tiny Kuwait was not amused. "Grossly unfactual references," said Talat Al-Ghoussein, Kuwait's Ambassador to the U.S., in a stiff note to the Fair president. Oil there is, to be sure...
...that he is watching a man hiding from the beast in himself. James Earl Jones can be as quiet as an extinct volcano one moment, and spewing emotional lava across a stage the next. With some actors, words clothe feelings; with Jones, feelings unclothe words so that joy, rage, wonder and sadness radiate nakedly through the theater...
...finest speeches, delivered at a Yale commencement, President Kennedy called for a reexamination of some of these sacred cows of the received wisdom. In part, his administration began the job. I wonder how likely it is that President Johnson will go beyond these pre-formulated "realities" of public discourse and attempt to reshape the terms in which we discuss public issues to correspond more closely to the under-lying actualities. It seems improbable that he will make the attempt, and this likely failure is not the smallest part of November's loss...
...inadequacy of these courses must be obvious to anyone at all familiar with the age, importance, and richness of Indian civilization. But aside from the wonder-that-was-India arguments for Indian studies and aside from the arguments about India's present importance in world affairs, there is another crucial reason for studying modern India. One of the major interests of people working in the social sciences is modernization and economic development. India presents us with a tremendous example of a rational attempt to achieve modernization and to achieve it in a non-totalitarian setting...
...wager that Audrey will mistakenly assume, silly thing, that Cary is the homicidal thief. There will be a long chase through the Paris Metro, which might prompt one to wonder how any healthy, adult male could fail to attain sufficient speed to catch frail Miss Hepburn clacking along in four-inch heels. In any case, it shall ultimately transpire that Cary is working for the govt. of the US of A (trying merely to repossess its rightful funds) and that the real killer is Audrey's trusted CIA agent, who isn't the CIA agent after all, but only borrowed...