Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much for people who wonder why he wrote a movie for Elvis Presley...
India's monsoon rains drummed down on the makeshift rope-and-bamboo stadium in Madras, and Mexico's Davis Cup team wondered if they were there for tennis or water polo. "We will lose our edge," fretted Coach Pancho Contreras as the first day's matches were postponed. The wonder was that the Mexicans had any edge left at all. In a comedy of errors-or possibly gamesmanship-the Latin Americans spent the better part of a week bumping around India while their hosts acted as if they weren't even there...
...wonder of the new orchestra is that a third of its players are fresh out of conservatories. The youngest is 18, and the group has played together no more than 30 hours. But Stokowski has an almost uncanny way of making instrumentalists play better than their best; he is as adept as ever at juggling his seating arrangements to produce the lush orchestral effects that are now so easily recognized as the Stokowski Sound...
Cupid's Darts. "Was it really genius?" asked the wonderful old windbag of his own remote and astounding youth. A prodigy, certainly. The son of a boozy soft-goods drummer who was pathetically proud of his descent from a long line of Southern naval officers, Upton was a boy wonder. He was still in short pants and scarcely through his freshman year at New York's City College (he entered at 13) before he had written his first novel. At his peak, his output of hack work and potboiling romances reached a sizzling 8,000 words...
...returns to its pure state once in five million years." This is ingenious rather than convincing, provocative rather than wise. And in his secret heart, Eliot knows it for the word game it is. But like the juggler who danced before the altar, Eliot is giving praise to the wonder of creation...