Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part piece Lifeline, though, these vibrations become only the merest echo, as the group slides into the "new gospel" of freedom. Here McLean's quintet (Lamont Johnson on piano; Scott Holt, bass; Billy Higgins, drums) wheels uninhibitedly through the cycle of human experiences, expressing exultation with rollicking riffs, wonder with gentle breathings, anxiety with abrasive scurryings, and finally the pain of death with wrenching, atonal probings...
...Jacobs and her colleagues working at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh knew that a number of mentally defective men with a double dose of both sex chromosomes, or XXYY, had been found in Swedish and English institutions as criminals or hard-to-manage inmates.* This made the researchers wonder whether it was the extra Y that predisposed the men to aggression. They decided to check on simpler, XYY cases, previously seldom reported...
...them that the production is at its best. Eddying about the pivotal encounters, however, is Shaw's depiction of the varied and colorful life of the Egyptian court and Roman camp. These physical details call for the best sort of visualization and stage realization, and I wonder how much they would contribute either to the dramatic argument or the comic effect of the play in even the best production. Significantly, and not too unhappily, it is in this area the production is weakest...
...jury was indeed persuaded, and ultimately convicted the Collinses (TIME, Jan. 8, 1965). Small wonder. With the help of an expert witness from the mathematics department of a nearby college, the prosecutor explained that the probability of a set of events actually occurring is determined by multiplying together the probabilities of each of the events. Using what he considered "conservative" estimates (for example, that the chances of a car's being yellow were 1 in 10, the chances of a couple in a car being interracial 1 in 1,000), the prosecutor multiplied all the factors together and concluded...
...seems to have invented its own musical rules, and approaches each of its creations with the clarity and wonder of the voice in Williamson's "No Sleep Blues": "I mixed stones and water just to see what it would do; and the water it got stony and the stones got watery...