Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nikita Khrushchev had more reasons last week to wonder why he ever invited a Red Chinese delegation to Moscow. Twenty-five reasons, to be exact, all neatly numbered in a letter for convenient "point-by-point discussion" at the scheduled Sino-Soviet meeting next week. Mao Tse-tung's latest message to Nikita-the most vehement to date in the continuing quarrel-doomed the confrontation to failure before it began. Peking deliberately left the Kremlin no room for compromise. After years of discussion over whether the split was real, Western skeptics could no longer doubt that it was deep...
...honesty, which the evasion of New York's laws raises. He showed he lacks the political honesty to attempt to change a law he disagrees with, and lacks the personal honesty to abide by a law he is sworn to uphold. If he were President, one can only wonder which laws he might use his wealth to evade...
This is the home of Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Morris Goldwater -and he loves it. Last week he gazed out at the red-glowing desert land at dusk and spoke reverently. "God," he said, "it's beautiful out here. You wonder what kind of insanity it is that makes you go away and leave it." Whatever it is, Barry Goldwater, 54, has traveled a long way from Arizona-and he may go a lot farther. For if the Republican National Convention were to be held today, Goldwater would almost certainly be its presidential nominee...
...work eight hours a day. Few undergraduates spend more than 20 hours each week preparing their lessons, and that leaves them much time to think about other things. Since they are not confronted with financial or professional pressures, they can spend time wondering about themselves. They exist in a community of intellectual superiors; upperclassmen, professors, men who have written good books; and they begin to wonder whether there is anything they can possibly achieve. Their questions grow increasingly insistent as they progress towards graduation and the choice of a career. Some people are temporarily paralyzed by the discordance they sense...
With each year we increase our investment in a certain set of assumptions, which we call our truths. For a time, late at night, we continue to question ourselves, and Wonder if we have grown old too soon. But even this process involves a certain risk, and some of our inner voice are quickly silenced...