Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take issue with the fatuous bit of anti-intellectualism expressed by Dean May of Yale about the corrupting influence of research scholars. Little wonder that first-rate science education makes little headway when the artsy-tartsy group controls many deaneries. When will some members of the academic establishment recognize that sophisticated, detailed work in the sciences is an essential part of a liberal education? But of course, teachers in the sciences do not have to feign frenzy to stir up interest; science is interesting for its own sake. It seems clear that large segments of the humanities can be made...
...right to license peanut vendors. That absurdity is also forcing Mayor John Lindsay of New York City-whose $4.6 billion budget is larger than any state's-to go hat in hand to Albany to beg for the new taxes that he believes the city needs. No wonder that, after years of neglect by rural-dominated state legislatures, city after city has learned to bypass the state capital and go directly to Washington for help...
Writing prose as mauve as he does, it's no wonder that Novelist Irving Stone, 62, is salting away some of the profits from his biographical fiction against the day when his muse gets too flushed to continue. Now he's the proud landlord of a new $210,000 U.S. Post Office building in Sacramento, Calif., a fairly common circumstance these days, with the Post Office Department leasing many of its stations. The investment will enrich his royalty pile by $15,000 a year. Cracked Assistant Postmaster Gene Gibham, "If something goes wrong with the plumbing...
...wonder to what extent the dismal public image of marihuana is a consequence of its route of entry. The medieval Assassins made Cannabis known as a plant that inspired fierce courage. Baudelaire gave it credit for being a gateway to worlds of visionary delight. But the wretched people who brought it to us--people who had high rates of crime and insanity to begin with--used it only to counteract the misery of their lives. Perhaps marihuana has been judged guilty by association...
...graduate student from Britain, "understands more of Aristotelian thought than anybody who taught me Aristotle at Cambridge." When one of Hardison's lectures on Milton and the Puritan period ended, Forsyth adds, "I wanted to stand up and cheer." Hardison admits to having some off days when "you wonder whether you are professing anything except ignorance. Sometimes I tell my best jokes and get nothing but lumpish faces staring back...