Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AUSTRALIA is a weird country," ¶ Novelist D. H. Lawrence once wrote, a country with "a wonder and a far-awayness." To put together this week's comprehensive report on Australia-the cover, color picture spread and cover story-TIME called on a team that erased the farawayness...
Reporting on the land of wonder in 1960 was the task of Brisbane Stringer Fred Hubbard, a transplanted Chicago newspaperman who has spent 13 years covering Australia, and Hong Kong Bureau Chief Stanley Karnow. They spent three weeks in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra interviewing scores of businessmen, actors, writers, architects, economists and government officials. Says Karnow, "I personally was so impressed with the country's potential that before I departed, I left material proof of my faith in Australia's future: I invested a modest sum in four Australian companies...
Kennedy's saturation campaign was a political wonder. Few towns with a population of more than 300 went unvisited by at least one member of Clan Kennedy, and most of them had three or four return visits. Wherever Jack went, the crowds followed him in Pied Piper numbers-and many of the faces were new. A lively turnout of 4,000 flowed into Milwaukee's Schroeder Hotel one afternoon to look the shockheaded Easterner over and to shake his hand. Said an awed politician: "I didn't recognize a fraction of them, and I know most...
...Consul, later sang the role of Desideria in Menotti's Saint oj Bleecker Street, a part that, like Carmen, required her to die of a knife wound each evening. ''I've been dying for a couple of years," said she at the time, "and I wonder if there's any future in it." Mezzo Lane sang her first traditional operatic roles at Manhattan's City Center-Carmen, and Amneris in Aïda, neither of which she had ever seen. Now married to St. Louis-born Conductor Samuel Krachmalnick, Mezzo Lane has sung Carmen...
Novelist Monsey writes very well, but not very convincingly. His sentences, paragraphs and pages are apt and forceful, and for the most part sustain the moods he intends. But taken a chapter or so at a time, the writing wars with itself. The reader may wonder whether the author really means what his narrator says. The newspaperman's powerful, simultaneous attraction and revulsion toward sex has left him torn by disillusion. But his humor betrays him; it is sane and healthy. The grin may be twisted, but the mind is not, and it is hard to believe that once...