Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Minh: "We were savages. We had no schools, doctors-nothing. The French did nothing to help. Now my mother is eating rice for the first time in her life, and she is learning to read. A railroad has been built to our village, and my parents, to their wonder, can ride this wheeled chariot all the way to Hanoi." From this dedicated core Ho Chi Minh draws the guerrillas to fight his blood feud against South Viet...
...holds that it exacerbates the deeper and more pervasive existential anxiety, about being and nonbeing. A do-it-yourselfer in a basement workshop may be too busy watching the guard on his bench saw to worry about traditional causes of anxiety, but at heart he eventually begins to wonder what is the meaning of life for him. That existential question, says May, is now the prevailing cause of the anxiety states that send patients to psychoanalysts. They are dealing less with "Sexschmerz" than with Weltschmerz...
Many people feel guilty simply about not being talented enough or intelligent enough or well-informed enough. If anybody can be anything he wishes, no wonder the businessman is made to feel guilty if he has neither ear nor taste for modern music (but somehow, the artist never seems to feel guilty about not understanding business). No wonder, too, that the adman thinks he ought to be able to write a novel or to know all about the atom. In an absurd misapplication of the ideal of equality, one man's opinions become as valid as another's. Thus, every...
...Ernst is a spry, bright-eyed artist whose most engaging trait is that he has never lost his sense of wonder or his sense of humor. The most routine experiences during his childhood in Briil, Germany-a walk into a forest, a case of measles, the death of a pet bird-produced visions that never left him. Somehow the most painful experience of his youth, his four years as an artillery engineer for the Kaiser, has become with time part nightmare and part joke. He was, he says, wounded twice at the front: once by the recoil...
Ever since All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque, 63, has probably made more out of death than the most fashionable undertakers. Mooning about death allows the author to pseudo-philosophize world-wearily on man's transitory state, enhances the characters' sense of the wonder of life, and gives a love affair the tang of teary urgency. Lillian and Clerfayte, the leading characters of his latest novel, have that kind of tangy affair. Lillian is a 24-year-old tuberculous patient in a Swiss Alpine sani-torium, and her X rays give her a possible year...