Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the Wolfe papers, along another aisle, five massive editions of the Tibetan scipture, the Tripitaka, lie wrapped with yellow burlap covers. This great work is a sort of Tibetan wonder book, combining holy writ with popular ideas on political and natural science. On the outside of each volume in addition to the insciption in the inscrutable and original Tibetan, are a number of small swatches of brilliantly colored, oriental cloth, which carry some mystic meaning to the rare cognoscentus...
...Small wonder that any Russian artist with integrity finds life difficult if he values his health. He has two choices: paint according to the Soviet realist standards of the Minister of Culture or paint in the privacy of his own closet...
...Lena Jeger, who sits for vice-ridden Holborn and St. Pancras South, objected to the use of the word "loitering" in the bill, and stirred giggles by stating that she liked "loitering" in disreputable streets, because they were interesting ones. Slight, blue-haired Joan Vickers said coolly: "I rather wonder whether, if the House of Commons consisted of 602 women and 28 men, this bill would have come before us today...
Privately, many Moroccans wonder if the monarchy can survive Mohammed. His elder son, 29-year-old Moulay Hassan, is Crown Prince, although Moroccan kings traditionally have been chosen by a college of ulema. or religious judges. He is French-educated, intelligent, can exude kilowatts of charm. As commander in chief of the royal army fighting the rebels in the Rif (TIME, Dec. 22) and around Fez, he takes his job seriously, works hard. But Morocco's young nationalists do not hide their dislike for the prince and his way of life. Only a few weeks ago a Berlin businessman...
Evading the technological mumbo jumbo of most spacemen of letters, Author Bradbury concentrates instead on the post-atomic-war homesickness of displaced Earthlings, or the pioneering wonder of planet hopping. An unexpected religiosity mars several of these tales and suggests that science fiction may be catering to a new brand of heresy ("If there's any way to get hold of that immortality men are always talking about, this is the way-spread out-seed the universe...