Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps if these words were heeded, the disgraceful nonsense perpetrated by a handful of malcontents would cease. As a graduate student, I often wonder how these demonstrators have so much time to lie around in corridors and march through the streets echoing the inane rallying cries that some long-haired, empty-headed rabble-rouser has put in their mouths...
...response to "A Letter from the Publisher" [Dec. 2]: we wonder about the criteria used in determining the "corporate grant of $250,000 to be divided among 25 women's colleges selected for academic excellence and leadership...
...teachers used to rigid lesson plans, broad-gauge humanities courses are hard to teach. Parents, too, sometimes wonder about the merit of programs that are not designed to prepare students for conquering the dry, factual state Regents exams. But educators believe that in the long run such courses help students establish values and concepts that will hold good throughout their lives. "The goal is discovery," says J. William Dodd, assistant to the Garden City superintendent. "We want to present issues and problems and let the kids solve them by themselves...
...President Johnson might have used all three basic tools that have been popularized by the Keynesian new economics - tax and budget policy as well as monetary policy - to curb the economy's overexuberance. He did not. Says a top official of the U.S. Federal Reserve: "There was a wonder ful opportunity to show that the new economics works both ways, and that with proper tax measures we can not only promote growth but preserve a reasonable balance. A golden opportunity was lost...
...Firestone, is selling like crazy at Firestone dealers for $1 a throw. Even her rare appearances on television ring up records. Her last TV special, in November 1965, pulled 35 million viewers-more than the Streisand show or the Carol Channing show or the Sinatra show that season. Small wonder that the Motion Picture Herald poll of exhibitors, to be published next month, will name Andrews as the No. 1 box-office star of the year.* She has already completed her fifth movie, Thoroughly Modern Millie, a Boy Friend-like musical about the '20s, and will soon start Star...