Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years since the airlift began to Berlin that saved that city after the Russians and East Germans had blockaded all surface communications. The city, as one man, hoped and prayed that the Allied airlift would be successful. In 1961, the Wall went up between West and East. One must wonder what would happen if once again Berlin was in danger, a city that has thrived under the protection of the Allies. The students should realise that they are using the democratic freedom of West Berlin to champion a cause that, if victorious, would withdraw their freedom of expression from them...
...think it is an outrage to normal society that the leading colleges and universities deliberately seek and honor the "oddball" candidate for admission. It is no wonder that these same institutions are plagued by sit-ins, riots, sex orgies and drugs, for this is the world of the oddball, who has no respect or responsibility toward law and order...
...sincerity is tremendous. He shows his Maoist leanings symbolically: the tiny bourgeois Scotch terrior seen playing throughout the film is in the end dwarfed by the powerful German shepherds the Maoists use to break up a Socialist meeting. When we finally see Carlos, it takes no great subtlety to wonder who is leading who. The bourgeois takes inventory of his books, and The History of China is followed by The Hope of Italy...
...smoke my first cigarette in four months and wonder if Lenin smoked. I don't go to crew. I grab a typewriter, and, though preoccupied by its electricness, manage to write...
More important, when Ed School workers took the urban plunge, most entered the ghetto as research tourists, handling out questionnaires, looking at school sights, then dissolving into the city's green hub. "People are always asking," says Edna Pezzolesi, head of the Hawthorne House, a Roxbury educational center, "'I wonder how many books Harvard's going to write about this...