Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonder if I should be devoted entirely to academic work," he says. "Sure, [marathoning] is exciting, but you have to sacrifice something if you want to run marathons as seriously...
...started to wonder why I had done so little and had so much, whereas these Africans had done so much and had so little," he said...
...less than two months, members of Harvard's class of 1999 will graduate, departing confident of our intellectual development and certainly value-added. But perhaps we will also be wonder-deprived...
...Wonder, which ought to be thought of as a special state of mind, is devalued vernacular currency today. Wonder Woman, the WonderBra, Wonder Bread and our casual use of the term "wonderful" all desensitize us to wonder's power. Wonder doesn't receive justice in our modern parlance...
...Wonder's entry in Webster's dictionary suggests its distinctive essence. It includes such words as awe, marvel, doubt, wistfulness, uncertainty, curiosity. The wonder of which I speak involves embrace of the tentative, or inspired exploration, or enchantment with the extraordinary...