Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europe are fitting socialist lyrics to capitalist tunes. A few years ago, TV and radio shows behind the Iron Curtain were dominated by the Soviet Union's decidedly square chastushki (folk songs). Today, Western songs constitute 60% of all the pop music broadcast in the Slavic countries. No wonder wary government censors have demanded that the lyrics be "put into our social context...
...sane person doubts any longer that war is hell. Even so, many readers of this massive and unremittingly gory novel are bound to wonder if the German conquest of Poland in World War II was actually the unrelieved hellish nightmare that Author Kuniczak makes it out to be. Heads are lopped off, noses pulverized, bellies carved up, teeth knocked out-and occasionally somebody is even shot...
...rock" going for him. The Airplane's Runnin' 'Round This World, for example, is a number that, says Lead Singer Marty Balin, celebrates the "fantastic joy of making love while under LSD." Their latest single, White Rabbit, is a fantasy about a kind of Alice in Wonder-drugland that is "aimed at the twelve-year-old junkie." Explains Grace Slick, a striking former model who gives the Airplane go-power with her big, belting blues voice: "It doesn't matter what the lyrics say, or who sings them. They're all the same. They...
...Rocket. With that kind of money at stake, it is no wonder that the competition is fierce. Current king of the pros is redheaded Rod ("Rocket") Laver, 28, the Australian left-hander who five years ago became the only player since Don Budge in 1938 to achieve a grand slam of amateur tennis' four top tournaments-the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. championships. Laver turned pro in 1963 and learned quickly how much tougher it was to play for pay: he lost 19 out of his first 21 pro matches. Last year Laver was the tour...
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE (Vt.) Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, D.LET. Her energetic crusade for enhancing the beauty of America encourages a vision beyond the blight of billboards and bulldozers to a flourishing landscape and to the wonder of the Green Mountains, the Grand Canyon, the Poconos and the Pedernales...