Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eyes, but I think that your cover story on Rhodesia [Nov. 5] attempted to present both sides. The white man wants to stay in Africa, but he fears the capacity of his black brothers to maintain law and order. As this fear has sometimes been justified, it is little wonder that the Rhodesian government has no immediate plans for "one man, one vote...
...middle of the Williamsburg Bridge, high above the inky East River, 1,700 passengers in two trains were suspended like riders on the Coney Island Wonder Wheel. "The wind would blow," said Mary Cronin Doyle, 18, "and the train would sway, and then some woman would scream." It took police five hours to assist everybody across a precarious, 11-in.-wide catwalk running 35 ft. from the train tracks to the bridge's roadway. All told, 2,000 trapped passengers preferred to wait it out?including 60 who spent 14 hours in a stalled train under the East River...
...feel like someone in a Thirties movie, the overnight wonder," Alfred said yesterday, as he tried to give a senior tutorial without interruptions...
...infamous programme for Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique consists of the strange visions of an "oversensitive young musician" who poisoned himself with opium. From the opening bars onward, our wonder grows: Where is the sensitivity? Where is the musician? Ah, but this irresistable old war-horse (or more accurately, warpig) has finally gotten the treatment it deserves. For the honest few who revere the Symphony not as serious music but as a macabre, hilarious circus, the HRO's performance was mad bliss. After a reasonably straight face through the verbose Reveries, the drippy waltz of the Ball episode, and the charmingly empty...
...delicate cameo that freezes three people in postures that none of them finds comfortable, it is almost faultless. Its achievement is that with in credibly economical means, it suggests that each of these people will change, develop, shift in their relations to each other and makes the reader wonder what their future will be. Its failure is that Updike never explores that future...