Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other horses have outside chances. Sky Wonder is rapidly improving; he finished a sharp second in the Withers at Aqueduct last Saturday. On My Honor was fast-finishing fourth in the Derby, but the Preakness distance of 13/16 miles is probably a bit too short...
Candy Spots will beat out Never Bend, followed by Sky Wonder, Chateaugay, On My Honor, Lemon Twist, and Country Squire...
Nothing bears truer witness to James's compassion than these skillfully rendered descriptions. And nothing provides a better indication of the ultimate aim of his inquiry: transcendence of one's own limitations through familiarity with the entire spectrum of human experience. "Religious rapture, moral enthusiasm, ontological wonder, cosmic emotion, are all unifying states of mind, in which the sand and grit of the self-hood incline to disappear, and tenderness to rule...
...Allen. Intercontinental S.A. has helped finance foreign investments in Mexico and raise large foreign loans for the Mexican government as well as for Pagliai's new aluminum plant, which is owned 35% by Pagliai's interests and 35% by the U.S.'s Alcoa. It is small wonder that he has become the foremost evangelist for U.S. investment in Mexico, and likes to needle gringos who will not take a chance: "Did the people who developed the Wild West cover their covered wagons with insurance...
Flying Saucers. His fancies led him everywhere. He went to Uganda to study the noble savages and swing their rhinoceros whips. He went to New Mexico, and while listening to the words of a Taos Indian chief, began for the first time to wonder about the morality of the Crusades. Everywhere he went he detected a "faint note of foolishness" clinging to his European clothes. To Jung, that was proof enough that Western man had "plunged down a cataract of progress," drawing him away from the unfinished business of the Middle Ages, the last age when man nakedly confronted...