Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before 2,000 of his students, the University of Chicago's 46-year-old President Robert Maynard Hutchins, onetime boy wonder of U.S. education, launched into the subject of war criminals (see INTERNATIONAL). What he said was provocative: he asked for mercy for the Germans. It was the first round in an argument of which the world would hear more...
...This," said a cultured voice in perfect English, "is the Lebanese delegation. I wonder if you could help me. I'm supposed to be press relations officer here, but I'm really a political scientist and I'm not sure how these things are done. I've spent all day completing a statement, rather important in our view. What do I do next...
...dignity in place of the shucks-fellers cuteness he has sometimes seemed doomed to. It is Director Minnelli who gives a passage like the silent breakfast scene its radiance. He has used most of his bit players and extras and crowds and streets so well that time & again you wonder whether some swarming, multitudinously human scenes were made in the actual city, with only a few of the actors aware of concealed cameras...
with out old friend and favorite, Jud Noff, and they report he even uses colored pencils on his New York Times. Speaking of colored pencils and colors, we wonder if Professor Merlam couldn't be using a brushful or two on those fantastic neckties of his. It also comes to our mind that he may one day suffer a stroke from the heat of his newest arrival a multi-colored gem of pre-war days...
...Enchanted Cottage" deserves a good notice. No reviewer who has urged realism and honesty upon a film industry plagued with artificialities can fail to wonder whether RKO has not pioneered the way toward artistic integrity--and the thought of artistic integrity on Hollywood is rather startling. "The Enchanted Cottage" is warm, unaffected, ingenuous realism--however much one may doubt that it is good entertainment...