Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peculiar behavior of the TV networks in granting Mr. Kennedy free time to plug the King-Anderson medical care bill, and their shoddy treatment of the A.M.A. when it attempted to obtain equal time for a rebuttal, make one wonder if the networks are afraid to incur the wrath of the President for fear of being treated like the steel companies...
...territory. There are no subplots, and no Ava Gardners miraculously rising out of the rice paddies. There is no false construction toward some climactic victory. It is just a steady series of small victories and long marches, constant death, pervading disease-malaria, typhus, amoebic dysentery, psychoneurosis-and the ultimate wonder that anyone survived...
...Bill, and still have serious doubts that it will usher in the Golden Age of American Labor the President predicts. That, Indeed, I take to be labor's position; and, for all the good it does labor, its feelings and mine coincide on this point. Union leaders must wonder, as I do, why the major place of economic legislation proposed by the President has only so tenuous a bearing on the country's major economic...
...remains to wonder whether this can be consistent with what makes a successful university president: "The ability to project a personality that quickens a spiritual and intellectual thirst for excellence in one's colleagues...
...Medieval Wonder. On opening night the curtain at Glyndebourne rose ten minutes late, at 5:40. The opera was Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande, the first French work ever done at Glyndebourne. The dreamily romantic settings, highlighted by ingenious lighting effects, perfectly conveyed the sense of medieval wonder that is an important part of the opera. The cast had been painstakingly and expertly drilled by Conductor Vittorio Gui. In the pit the Royal Philharmonic sounded first-rate-particularly so in a theater whose sharp acoustics are ideally adapted to Debussy's richly inlaid instrumental patterns...