Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read the article under "Civil Rights," and I hung my head and cried from shame. I am a Negro. "Demonstrators rushed into his place, urinated on the floors when he locked his rest rooms"-no wonder they don't want us in their schools, hotels and restaurants. All Negroes are not filthy, dirty and immoral, but as long as any of our people act in this manner we will be considered...
...absence can cause a vague sense of unease. Cyprus? Guantanamo? Panama? South Viet Nam? East Africa? Malaysia? All are trouble spots. But taken separately or even together, they do not quite seem to spell CRISIS. Feeling this, the average newsreader is likely to have certain qualms and begin to wonder if something isn't really going on that he ought to know about and be able to worry about...
...automated, Kawakami can price his pianos at better than competitive levels: a Yamaha grand, for instance, sells for less than $2,000 in the U.S., as much as 50% lower than comparable U.S. makes. What now disturbs Kawakami is not competition but the present state of human patience. "I wonder," he muses, "if in a decade there will be enough people in the world patient enough to learn to play the piano...
...sees that for convenience the first ten symbols may be recombined for numbers greater than nine. He may also learn that each digit (say in 326) has a "place value" ten times that of its neighbor to the right (three hundreds, two tens, six ones). He discovers the wonder of that great ancient invention, zero, the "place holder" that allows infinite expansions (606 would be simply 66 without...
...these are the faintest echo chambers for the conflict that split Thomas' skull. The torment of the lyric poet is that lyric poetry is essentially a young man's form. The time comes when the world must be seen more through the eyes of wisdom than of wonder. The romantic in Dylan Thomas would not or could not meet the demands and responsibilities of age. Dylan, the play, shadows the eternally youthful hell raiser, but only Alec Guinness, the actor, probes the special hell in which the man lived...