Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formulation of U.S. policies back out of a tricky situation by declaring "I don't think the terrain and conditions are right for sending in our troops," as Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright apparently stated. The political conditions in Asia might not be all "pro" America, but I wonder where the Senator was when the U.S. fought a war in the Solomon Islands, the Gilberts, the Marshalls, the Carolines and the Marianas. Those terrains are very similar to the terrains of Laos, South Viet Nam, and Thailand...
After reading your May 5th article on "Featherbedding on the Pads," I think a more appropriate title would be Swindle. I wonder sometimes how the cartoonists can still show Uncle Sam wearing clothes...
...style of self-assertion. To enter the school is to face up to middle class values, and the barrier is virtually impenetrable. Youth returning from school take off their school clothes as if removing prison uniforms. More than half quit school as soon as the law allows. Little wonder that parents turn to the settlement house and ask, "Why don't you make the kids behave...
During the debates over pornography and the law, the Grove Press has printed Lady Chatterly's Lover, the U.S. Southern District Court has subsequently denied the right of the Postmaster General to ban the unexpurgated edition of that book, and people have begun to wonder if the next step--Miller--is really a pornographer or a prophet. In Pornography and the Law by Eberhard and Kronhausen he was called "the apostle of the gory detail"; Karl Shapiro has called Miller "the greatest living author...
Starts Wednesday: Casablanca, that film of films. Two generations it is now that have sat in wonder before the continuously magnificent performance of Bogey, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains. The plot is insignificant; Peter Lorre is dead before the plot truly gets underway--but, mes chers, when, defying the Nazis, the entire cast bursts spontaneously and glorously into the Marseillaise, how marvellous it all is. That, gentlemen, is great movie-making. Evenings...