Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House, has a keen and crafty mind, that he is a diligent worker and a dangerous debater, with a knifelike sarcasm that can cut an opponent to tatters. McCormack delights in being described as "The Fighting Irishman from Boston," and he is all of that. But some Congressmen wonder if that is enough...
...fact that he squeezed paint on canvas directly from the tube, used his palette knife instead of a brush, and left his fingerprints still visible. Was he the great "precursor" of 20th century abstraction? "There is no answer," says Dore Ashton, and a viewer may be tempted to wonder whether it really matters...
...main performances are most capably carried off. Actress Kerr, with steely control, tunes herself like a violin string till she quivers exquisitely at the snapping point; and the dear children are just what Author James imagined-faces that shine like bright new pennies till the watcher begins to wonder uneasily about the other side of the coin...
...wonder why your review of African Genesis [Dec. 15] goes so aggressively about denying the book's thesis. Of course there are vicious human impulses, which continue to be indulged in widely and are generally condoned-hunting for fun, for example. How can you account for viciousness in civilized man other than that it is an ingrained heritage of primitive origins...
...ONLY CHILD, by Frank O'Connor. An account of the author's boyhood in a wet, ruined, pious, oppressed Cork slum. The heroine is O'Connor's mother; her son writes of her with eloquence and wonder...