Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonder what can possibly remain for a Romper Room student to learn when he or she finally reaches that mysterious something called "big school...
...movie script is being published this autumn, however, which ignores the close-shot, long-shot lingo of the camera's eye, implicitly mistrusts the camera's capacity to discern, and with a natural if unnecessary eloquence offers its own scene-setting visions of South Pacific backgrounds. Small wonder. Called The Beach of Falesá, the script was written by Dylan Thomas. In its stagy directions, "a stream foams out of the descending galleries and gardens of the tremendous, verdurous, impenetrable high interior of the island," and a "lantern and the moonlight make the bush all turning shadows that...
...steelmaker, has often been criticized for being a clumsy, poorly organized giant with too much fat. Last week Big Steel answered the critics with its most sweeping reorganization since 1951. The move gave the jitters to thousands of its employees who fear for their jobs, and caused competitors to wonder just how tough the revamping will make the company that already sells a fourth of the steel in the U.S. "How do you streamline an elephant?" asked one rival...
However, we wonder why instructors from Government 1, Humanities 2 and 5, Natural Sciences 2, and Social Sciences 4, must be forced into Memorial Hall or similar congeries. Like Economics 1 and other elementary General Education courses, their courses could be sectioned at the first meetings, without a needless loss of time and adrenaline...
Wrote Frost to Untermeyer: "Cast your eye back over my family's luck and perhaps you'll wonder if I haven't had pretty near enough?" But he stoically refused to make literary capital of his losses. "You shouldn't wax literary about what you've been through," he wrote in 1933. "It must be kept way down under the surface where the great griefs belong...