Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reading about the South Vietnamese Buddhists [June 10], whose primary purpose seems to be to foster instability in their country, I have come to wonder whether "bonze," the title of their leaders, is a derivative of banza, a Hausa word of West Africa meaning "emptiness, vanity, worthlessness, cheapness...
...committee's report that the executive committee hastily drew up a new set of proposals. These completely negated several of the suggestions made by the committee which had purportedly made a thorough investigation of the problem. Now the new rules have gone into effect. One can only wonder how long they will survive before RGA, in desperation, once again attempts to revise them...
STRAVINSKY: FOUR ETUDES & LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS (Nonesuch). Pierre Boulez is a protean figure in postwar French music -a first-rate conductor and composer whose creative roots are in the music of Debussy and Stravinsky and the poetry of Baudelaire. No wonder, then, that his rendering of these classics has an almost uncomfortable intensity and excitement-almost as if they were being composed before the listener's ear. Boulez' musical aim is to expose "the naked flesh of feeling," and he does...
...crisis is a cunning blend of caution, mad sweetness and reluctant acts of aggression, all booby-trapped with nuance about the love-hate relationship between East and West. Though many of his lines are in Russian (hastily acquired for this role), his Red-roving English is a comic wonder, spoken with the don't-look-back resolve of a man headed over Niagara Falls in a barrel...
...know it is my duty to support the effort," says one cadet. "But I also have a great deal of faith in my teachers and professors here at Harvard, and when so many of them tend to doubt the worth of the war, I start to wonder...