Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Matter of Surplus. The British seemed to wonder what the U.S. was so upset about. Approved by the government as a straight commercial venture, the sale was treated as if it had no cold war overtones. Leyland had sold hundreds of buses to Cuba before Castro, and was now only resuming relations with an old customer. "I am sorry the U.S. disapproves," said Leyland's Managing Director Donald Stokes, "but this is an English company doing a deal with Cuba. I have no knowledge of having to go to America for permission to sell buses." Besides...
...sake of a rational political atmosphere at home and for the sake of America's Image in the world, Americans should want to know the truth about Kennedy's assassination. They should wonder: if Oswald may be innocent, then who else may be guilty? But above all, they should feel compelled to find the facts, because in the United States no man is considered guilty until convicted under...
...Well, no wonder they didn't pass...
...tone sounds a little like the "obsessional heterosexuality" that Ferencxi claimed made peace and fraternity impossible in Europe!) My weary opinion is, as Professor Carlson used to say at Chicago, "It's joost living that wears the organism out; these other vices don't count for so much." I wonder, however, how many Harvardians are "initiated" into anything at age twenty? And surely Mr. Brackman must know that the thing is not the kinds of acts but the background psychosexual history and the interpersonal context in which they occur. (He himself dismisses the social context as badly "repressive...
Reverie of Wonder. The modern estimate of Bach's creations is that they quite simply made the practice of music more perfect than it had ever been before, or has been since. "You have only to hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself," Bach told his students of the organ, giving a rare expression to the credo of simplicity that makes his music now seem blindingly pure. Through his work there runs a thread of such subtlety and daring, such piety, passion and genius that the musical world stands before it-as Mendelssohn...