Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guns & Discipline. The wonder is that Africa's military revolution was so long in coming. The stage had long been set for change, and the armies were the only force capable of bringing it about. Opposition politicians were either exiled, imprisoned, scared or bought off, and labor unions were weak. The ar mies, on the other hand, had guns, discipline and communications, and were the only truly national organizations in their divided lands. Their officers, often bright young men educated in the military academies of Europe, had long been symbols of selflessness: they ate simply and rode around...
...twice-weekly Batman series is intended as camp-meaning it's so bad that it's good, at least in the view of some (TIME, Jan. 28). The four-to-twelve age set continues to marvel while Batman and his protégé, Robin the Boy Wonder, rout such Gotham City scoundrels as the Penguin and the Mad Hatter. Teen-agers and the college crowd still consider it sophisticated to snigger at Batman's wildly exaggerated plots and cliché-cluttered dialogue. As a result of the show's high ratings, merchants are anticipating...
...wonder if Letter Writer George W. Cooley, commenting on Barbra Streisand [Feb. 18], realizes that a crepe suzette is nothing more than a degenerate blintz...
...Viet Nam, where years of frustration have given U.S. officials a painful inoculation against euphoria, old hands almost embarrassedly admitted that things were looking up. "I'm almost afraid to say it," allowed an intelligence officer in Saigon, "but I wonder if the Viet Cong aren't hurting-and maybe even hurting badly...
...managed to shake the field. It was a rough world, not just on the picket lines but in the interminable ideological warfare among the power addicts on the outer fringe of communoid politics. This kind of politics seems as dead today as Joe Hill. The reader will wonder how, among his chosen society-the failed saints, moral riffraff, ignorant zealots, sex addicts and refugees from bourgeois society who people his book-Rexroth almost alone seems to have survived as his own man, still spouting verse and invective, and still in splendid spiritual health...