Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cities stirred-but it was more than the zephyrs of spring that stirred them. For thousands of years, since ancient Ur rose on the banks of the Euphrates, man has sought out the city as a place of wonder and opportunity, a citadel of art and learning, the home of kings and gods. In the U.S., in the spring of 1962, he did not have to look far in any direction to find its towers near at hand. Never in history has a society been so urbanized: seven out of every ten Americans, 125 million strong, live in cities...
John Updike is a brilliant writer who has so far failed to write a brilliant book. Admiring readers who have watched him warm up for the last several years, exhibiting his perfect half volleys and cableknit sweater, soon may begin to wonder when he is going to get on with the match. The warmup continues in the present collection, as the author jogs his beautifully developed style through a not very demanding series of mood studies, stories and sketches...
...poets' chief rhetorical opposites (and enemies), who make one wonder if discussion can really be a profitable exercise, delegate to represent them here two famous didactic lcturers. The first, Ambassador Valerian Zorin, explains how U.S. activity in the U.N. has (as is well known) hindered the efforts of peace-loving nations to disarm, to reform U.N. executive machinery, to admit the Chinese People's Republic, and to eliminate colonialism. Not very curiously, the style and tone of the article closely resembles that of Robert C. Hill, who used to be Ambassador to Mexico, and who now quotes from...
...need not believe that Harvard is consciously directing its students into graduate school, nor that it is solely concerned with grades, to wonder at the effects of new scoring systems that will predict both with great accuracy. The temptation to rely on scores, as Merit and the National Science Foundation have shown, can overpower good intentions, and though today Harvard may be little concerned that students seem to attend graduate school with increasing frequency, it may be forced to take a more interest when it can predict what will do after graduation college...
...would seem almost impossible not to consider the kind service these graduates will community--and to wonder, whether someone who probably be a doctor can get as from Harvard as would a . It will be particularly turn down a potential group in favor of someone who most certainly be in group III. comes harder and harder to predictions as the predictions be more and more certain...