Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zubin's father, Mehli Mehta, was Bombay's leading musician, a violinist who played dinner music at the Taj Mahal Hotel, in his spare time served as conductor of the Bombay Symphony. Little wonder, then, that Zubin says he was "brainwashed with classical music from the cradle." He had his own record player when he was two years old, later crouched wide-eyed in the corner during his father's lessons and chamber-music rehearsals. With his retentive memory and faultless ear, he was soon whistling Paganini caprices in the original key while riding his bike...
...Pity & Wonder. Though French matrons outnumbered those from other countries, many stores reported that hundreds of customers were flying in from Belgium, The Netherlands, West Germany, Scandinavia, and even Portugal and Poland. One U.S. boutique owner crossed the Atlantic to buy mod dresses on sale for $3.60, figuring that their London labels would enable her to charge $30 for them at home. Marveled the Daily Mail: "London has become an Anglo-Saxon version of an Eastern bazaar, where Continentals admire our traditional quality, pity our poverty, wonder aloud how we can do it at the price, and pay in currencies...
...wonder is not so much that it was all done so badly but that it was done at all. The further wonder is that the author of such lines could have created the great, intricate and coherent canvases of Ulysses...
Anyone who is drafted and then refuses to follow orders is in big trouble. No wonder few seniors are looking forward to graduating this year. Receiving a college diploma used to be an exciting experience, something to look forward to, a challenge; now it is beginning to look like an induction notice...
...Harvard and all over the country are grappling with this year. The immediate future is no longer the challenge that it should be in our advanced society. Instead it has become a series of moral confrontations. Our society preaches freedom and peace while it practices repression and violence. The wonder is that not more than one out of every four Harvard seniors sees his immediate future as anything less than an apocalyptic nightmare...