Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election on his own since 1950. Though he is the favorite of party regulars, they want a winner, and they wonder whether he is the man. "What's Nixon done that makes him any more electable than he was four years ago?" asks a party professional. "We've got to stop handing out medals for duty performed in campaigns...
Ache in G Major. Little wonder, then, that Messiaen's compositions defy pigeonholing. Trois Petites Liturgies de la Presence Divine (1944), scored for soprano chorus, strings and a clattering assortment of percussion, celebrates God's omnipresence by mixing swatches of Gregorian chant with Hindu rhythms and the unearthly quavering of the Ondes Martenot (an electronic wave generator). The 77-minute Turangalila Symphony (1948), a thick layer cake of orchestral textures, is part of Messiaen's treatment of the Tristan legend, which he considers "the greatest myth of human love." Chrono-chromie (1960) echoes the sounds of nature...
Countess is bad enough to make a new generation of moviegoers wonder what the Chaplin cult was all about. It serves as a melancholy reminder that an important part of being a champ is knowing when to retire...
...some great image, this is still a liberating doctrine: that even when you slip up, you lay the whole lot at the feet of Christ, and you go on from there. All the striving and fear and anxiety goes. This seems to me a rediscovery of the sheer wonder of God's grace." Recent Luther research has emphasized the strong streak of secularity in his thought, which amounts to a virtual command for the Christian to live his faith in action. Traditionally, Luther's doctrine of "the two kingdoms" has been taken to imply that Christians hould...
...prospect of aiding the city's Negro children. Sadly, it never has been sure enough of its own hopes--or its mandate--to appropriate the money and thought necessary to make its programs more than token efforts. The frustrating pattern repeats itself--and Boston's Negroes can quite justifiably wonder whether the Committee's loud pronouncements, even when backed by the State Board, are worth all the attention liberal whites give them...