Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Devious. In Minneapolis some skeptics wonder if Judd's retirement is merely an attempt to inspire a draft; movement to aid him in a gerrymandered, district. But those who know Judd best argue that he will stick by his decision. Says the man in question: "I feel there are things I can do more usefully in the remaining years of my life. I'm not a devious person. If I wanted to run again...
...gambit that Capablanca never dreamed of, bumptious U.S. Chess ChampionBobby Fischer, 19, invoked the majesty of the law against former Champion Samuel Reshevsky, 50, himself an ex-boy wonder. Having defaulted a 16-game series with Reshevsky last summer by disdaining to show up for an 11 a.m. match, Late-Riser Fischer sued for resumption of the competition lest ''his reputation as the most skillful and proficient chess player in the U.S. be irreparably damaged and tarnished...
...woodcuts, a boy in a flowered nightshirt with his curious but faithful dog beside him stares in wonder at a baroque blue moon; in another a very simply represented little girl sits with an alert-looking cat in a high-back chair, tilts her head ever so slightly; and glances mischievously at the viewer. Wildly fanciful creatures, some with extra pairs of legs, romp nonchalantly through several more. In short, the artist has done many woodcuts but each is the very distinctive creation of an apparently inexhaustable imagination...
...gods who grant Midas his request are excellent, and make you wish Cole would write a real unpretentious comedy some day. I wonder if Harvard is good for somebody as clever as Cole; it's filled his head up with a set of allusions it will take him ten years to forget. But, pedantry aside, Bacchus and his father Silenus are two really engaging comic characters you won't forget: Bacchus (who is crowned with myrtle, but wears shades and is hip) is William Keough, who is almost as good as Allan Mandel, the drunken old God who gives imitations...
...sheer, outstanding inability, Lieutenant Hutton quickly rises to the top of the nut heap. He is a go-day-wonder-how-he-made-it who begins the war as a casualty (he tries to catch a baseball with his ear), continues it as a sad sack (he reports for duty by hitting the wrong pedal, ramming his jeep through the side of a building, parking it smartly beside the C.O.'s desk), but ends it as a hero (he captures the gefilte-fisherman). The nut occasionally has a date: Lieutenant Prentiss, a nurse who in civilian life was "just...