Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even a wonder budget will accomplish no good whatever if the ways in which it is spent and administered 'are not dramatically changed. The question of emphasis is certainly the most talked-of and possibly the most significant of all. Both the Draper and Senate Foreign Relations Committees feel that military aid has been over-stressed in recent years, not necessarily because too much is spent on it, but because the Administration has given too much importance to its value in policy planning. By its very nature, this kind of assistance sets up military hierarchies in countries to which...
...people of the U.S.A. complain of declining international prestige and wonder why. We of this country realize you have a color problem, but so have we, as we are outnumbered 100 to 1. Even so, I have never seen a European here vent childlike emotions on a small native child. That such a thing can occur in the U.S.A. is sufficient evidence of the immaturity of the people concerned to cause us grave doubts of the fitness of the U.S.A. to be a bulwark against Communism...
...Passionate Concern." With such bursts through the boundaries of knowledge, with such leaps of faith in the possibilities of the future, it is small wonder that an electric atmosphere pervaded the whole of science in 1960. "I could have lived in no other age in which so intoxicating and beautiful a series of discoveries could have been made," breathes British Mathematician Jacob Bronowski. "If I have any regrets at the thought of dying, it is that we live in so explosive a time that discoveries will continue to be made that I will know nothing about...
Most people know that college degrees include bachelor's, master's and doctor's, but they get lost in the abbreviations. No wonder, reported the U.S. Office of Education last week. In a 324-page book that must have required the toughest translating job since Linear B, the bureau reported that the nation's colleges and universities now issue more than' 1,600 degrees (v. about 60 in 1887), and the system is "chaotic...
...Tertz. Smuggled out of Russia, author unknown, this short novel moves with surgical precision through the surrealist world of Soviet prison camps and the larger reservation that is Communist society. At one end of the spectrum stands the conditioned Soviet organization man, at the other the disillusioned idealists who wonder whatever happened to their dream...