Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...education-had been enacted over the opposition of fearful Republicans. "Afraid, afraid, afraid!" chanted Johnson. "Republicans are afraid of their own shadows and afraid of the shadow of progress"-a taunt that prompted Everett Dirksen, the Senate's Republican leader and Johnson's sometime congressional ally, to wonder: "Is the President bewildered...
...victim), that he has O-type blood (determined through tests on the rapist's semen), and that he may drive a bronze and cream 1959 Chevrolet (which was spotted near the areas where Mrs. Hochhausler and Mrs. Messer were killed). Understandably, jittery Cincinnati was beginning to wonder if it is in for a reign of terror like the killing spree that had Boston women besieged for two years...
McKusick is also unbeaten this year. In each of his races he has broken the standing course record. Right now he is the favorite to win the Heptagonal meet at the end of the season, And, like Hardin, the Cornell wonder is only a sophomore...
Rock is bluntly told: "You've got what every middle-aged man in America would like to have-freedom, real freedom." The freedom of his new life might well make a man wonder whether he has recaptured his youth or simply been shanghaied back to the silly season. Taking up his assigned identity as an artist, Rock frets because he cannot paint. Beside the sea, he meets a strange young woman (Salome Jens) who has apparently found peace by abandoning her husband, two children and a wall oven. Together they attend a nudie bacchanal that ends with everyone trampling...
This unhappy process, says Eble, begins with parents who fail to realize that "learning begins in delight and flourishes in wonder," and who fret so much over their children's education that they discourage a sense of curiosity about knowledge. Everyone jokes about pupils who fall in love with their teachers; but, to Eble, "it is no joke-it is the way of learning. That is the advantage of live teachers and live books. They can be fallen in love with, possessed...