Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times Jackie displays a political naivete that makes reporters wonder if she is not reverting to the dumb Dora masquerade of her St. Grottlesex days. When a reporter told her in mid-campaign that he reckoned Jack's New York margin at more than half a million votes, she looked wide-eyed and uncertain: "Really? That's important, isn't it? How nice.'' And when her political duties are over, Jackie shucks her toga with obvious relief. Last October, after the tumultuous ticker-tape parade through Manhattan, she whipped off her reversible coat, turned...
Even while adopting a give-him-a-chance attitude, Washington newsmen already are beginning to wonder if likable Pierre Salinger will live up to the professional performance of his predecessor as presidential press secretary. Unlike Jim Hagerty, Salinger sits in on few top-level conferences with his boss, thus often has to turn back questions with guesswork (not always accurate) or with: "I don't know, I wasn't there." Last week Salinger led off an answer with his customary "I believe that . . ." and got barked at by one fed-up reporter: "I don't want...
...could not help them-at the moment. After two years of harassment. President Eisenhower ordered the State Department to break all diplomatic ties, at both the embassy and consular level, for the first time in the history of U.S.Latin American relations. To most Americans the wonder was that the U.S. had stood it so long...
...Good a Cure? Some Canadians wonder whether the cure might not be worse than the disease. Alberta Premier Ernest Manning charges the federal government with "catering to a small element of bigoted nationalists" in a way that could only bring harm to the Canadian economy. Many businessmen, particularly oilmen, who need big chunks of investment capital, argue that Canadians do not have the funds to finance major projects themselves. Calgary's Oilweek trade bible cited as a typical case a nearly completed, $90 million financing by Canadian-owned Alberta Gas Trunk Line Co. Ltd. for a pipeline-gathering system...
When Anouilh makes his sporadic shots at pathos, as in the final scene, in which the General accepts his defeat, the result is embarrassment. The glittering stage has for the first time become a living room, the General has become your next door neighbor, and you wonder what he's doing on the stage. One cannot feel compassion for a character who has been the embodiment of ideas, cuckolded age trying to relive youth, a character who has never been human...