Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Denture Collection. The subscription list is now 4,000, and the average customer runs up a bill of $96 a year-and that is a wonder. To be sure, the show runs straight through without commercials. But after seven unprofitable and uncertain years WHCT has lost its ambition; now nearly all of its programs are movies. Worse, they are seen only in black and white, and are not strictly first-run (last week's offerings included Frank Sinatra in The Detective). In earlier days, WHCT was more venturesome. It carried a 1963 Joan Baez concert live...
...time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent." He is particularly ferocious toward the press: "The headline of the Daily News today reads BRUNETTE STABBED TO DEATH. Underneath in lower-case letters: '6,000 Killed in Iranian Earthquake.' I wonder what color hair they...
...wonder, especially after reading Dark As the Grave, whether Lowry was in fact just another writer with one fine novel in him. To write Dark As the Grave, he trudged back through the country, the town, and even the buildings that had plagued him into writing Under the Volcano. Through most of the book, Lowry paws around, at times almost dispassionately, in the relics of the earlier novel. What had come off as supra-human desperation in Under the Volcano now emerges as an occasional fit of pique...
...occasionally wonder if Vonnegut's writing will lose its appeal a few ages hence. Certainly life will continue to become even more complex and our minds will want to identify that this is happening to us. But will people drift out of the particular absurdities they now languish in and start speaking in a new idiom different from the one Vonnegut's characters used to speak? And would such an occurrence make the then readers unable to recognize the truth in the writing and hence not laugh? Well, fundamentally I believe that it is the cliches that will never change...
...overseas situation at the University of London. There, Internist Sheila Sherlock is a leading opponent of surgery on silent stones, but Surgeon Rodney Smith, who operates on most of Dr. Sherlock's patients, is all for taking them out. "That," observed Moderator Farrell, "creates an interesting situation. I wonder how they live together...