Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John Winthrop, Class of 1732, liked to be called "The Big Dawn of Religious Perfection" and the famous Wampanoag leader Squanto adopted the name Jimmy Ray ("T-Bone") Squanto, Jr. However, for some unknown reason (meteorite), country music seems to have died out completely in Massachusetts. We can only wonder what a difference it would have made in Northeastern and American history had it survived. Some possibilities I have come up with are: the Boston Massacre would be The Big Boston Whup-Ass; the Declaration of Independence would include 37 uses of the word "ain't" and contain the phrase...
...take a permanent political position in the uncertain years after the Revolution, the U.S. has had a love-hate relationship with the idea of monarchy. We love the glamour, but we hate the despotism and hereditary privilege that the same monarchy seems to symbolize. However, sometimes I wistfully wonder, what if? Would it have been better for George Washington to have taken the crown of the U.S., and would that have actually supported the U.S.'s need for a democratic government...
...collaborations with John Lennon. But then McCartney's post-Abbey Road pop output has also been notable mainly for its vacuity. The cash flow produced by such perennials as Yesterday (recorded to date by more than 2,200 artists) ensures that Sir Paul's great-grandchildren will never wonder where their next BMW is coming from, but it has also relieved him of the need to make new music vital enough to seize and hold the attention of contemporary listeners. Perhaps that is why, 30 years after Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band changed the face of rock...
...government wants to install one in your computer. TIME has learned that the FCC has proposed that new PCs be outfitted with a V chip to filter out video violence and sex. Still unclear is what Net broadcasts could be affected. The idea alarms free-speech advocates, who wonder why Americans need a Net-nanny. "What you get is a devolution of the First Amendment," argues lawyer Bob Corn-Revere. FCC chairman REED HUNDT says the high-tech industry can "be part of the process" as the agency sets rules. There's a low-tech alternative: the off switch...
...personification of pure evil: he's more Puck than Iago. Jason Mills '99 plays Marcus, the faithful brother and sole figure of reason, as a semicomic counter to Titus, but has a moment of unexpected resonance when he discovers the raped and mutilated Lavinia--a moment that makes one wonder what he might have done with the role of Titus...