Word: wonder
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...many have said, Galbraith is--wonder of wonders--an economist who can write the English language; he is also, particularly in this collection, more a moralist than a technical economist. His moral point, expressed in many different contexts, is that something is wrong with our society when there are so many slums, so much unemployment, such shortages in educational facilities, housing, and other public goods--all in the face of unprecedented upper and middle class consumer prosperity...
...these reflections suggest what was lacking in the SANE . No germ of commitment the audience. Instead, the began to wonder about symbols, underlying meanings. The audiance came to the rally curious but committed, interested but not middle aged people seeking a more fortunate version of their team of the thirties, high school and college students genuinely worried out about the problems they sensed, to be led to solution. The audiance left in the same tentative, mood...
Certainly Allen's antics would remain near the surface of most spectators' memories. Some would even harbor a few non-political suspicions about the organization itself. Afterwards, some would wonder what they could do for SANE: the group's proposal for action were almost lost in the shuffle of bills. It could only be hoped that the quasi-committed would become slightly more interested, would take time to investigate further the possibilities for individual action...
Even so tolerant a man, however, may begin to wonder how much he can stand after the show the two candidates put on this week. Speaking on Tuesday in West Orange, N.J., vice-President Nixon told an enthusiastic audience that his opponent's farm program would raise family food costs by 25 per cent, reduce beef and pork supplies to wartime rationed levels and put two million people out of work. He added that Democratic farm proposals would drive a million people "now engaged in serving the needs of farm people" into unemployment, would encourage Soviet agricultural supremacy, and would...
...from Biologist Harvey E. Savely, head of life sciences for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. "Our technology," he said, "is faced with problems of increasing complexity. In the living things we see around us, problems of organized complexity have been solved with a success that invites our wonder and interest. It is natural, therefore, that we look to these successful inventions in nature for clues for new classes of man-made machines with greatly increased capabilities...