Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That was about all Lord Beaver-brook's Express cared to report. The Sunday Observer and the Sunday Telegraph were equally vague, identifying Thomson merely as "the Canadian newspaper proprietor." Only in the London Sunday Times did Thomson get the full treatment, and a little more besides. No wonder. The Sunday Times is Roy Thomson's own paper...
...Piety is no substitute for learning," says Executive Secretary John P. Clelland of Philadelphia's Westminster Theological Seminary. "We think that the Christian religion is true and capable of intellectual defense." Most modern Protestant congregations, heavily salted with college-educated people, would agree-and wonder whether the supply of future ministers is able enough and numerous enough. The answer, gathered by TIME correspondents reporting on the country's major Protestant seminaries, is that there is plenty of quality enrolled there, but not enough quantity...
...with new ones built in the U.S. (required by the Jones Act to aid U.S. shipyards) has risen until it is twice that of building a Japanese ship. And low-wage foreign flag vessels operate for about $800 a day v. a U.S. ship's $1,900. Small wonder the Taian Maru is hauling the Coos Bay shipment for $40 per 1,000 board feet -$17 less than the lowest...
Monkey in Winter. When Jean Gabin gets drunk he thinks he is back in China. When Jean-Paul Belmondo gets drunk he thinks he is back in Spain. When they both get drunk in a village on the coast of Normandy the customer may sometimes wonder where in the world he is and why he isn't somewhere else. After a few hundred shots he will probably begin to giggle more or less continuously, even though he knows he will be sorry in the morning. Gabin is a merry old soak. He is also the grand...
...female majority of novel readers may enjoy being told that "to worship woman is to redeem the world." The Western male, however, may feel as mixed up as the lady who called Rama a "lecherous eunuch," and wonder about the Eastern profundities that sprinkle the book like sacred coconut in the curry. Example: "What is holiness but the assurance man has of himself?" Nor is there much help from the book's epigraph which quotes from the guru: "Waves are nothing but water. So is the sea." While conceding that it probably sounds better in Sanskrit, the bemused Westerner...