Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believing the streets were paved with gold. People like this constantly interrogate the American visitor about salaries, apartment size, leisure time, and so on, not because they are faring particularly badly, but because the image of unlimited wealth and opportunity in the U.S. has yet to be dispelled. Others wonder more about sheer size--size of buildings, of cities, of airports or of cars. Still others, perhaps with a more defined political awareness, have questions about poverty, unemployment and the skid-row syndrome. Few, if any, indicate signs of envy, but there wasn't one who wasn't curious...
...year on the music scene. The Cascades were cruising with "Rhythm of the Rain," Little Stevie Wonder hit the charts with "Fingertips" and Ruby and the Romantics were making sock hops tops crooning "Our Day Will Come." In 1963 the MIT soccer team beat Harvard...
...certain that some freshmen will, for the first time in their lives, ignore Yom Kippur, join their non-Jewish classmates at registration, and resent being put to the test. I know this for a fact because freshmen of previous years have told me so. And so I wonder, "Why should the University put impressionable young Jews to such a test at the outset of their Harvard career?" I ask, "What is the counter-value, apart from bureaucratic considerations and lack of regard for Judaism, that justifies putting this not-so-subtle choice to them...
...great vessel has been adorned with a topless if wooden dame of the sea. And last week at a cocktail reception before a "Circus Saints and Sinners" charity luncheon in Washington, two bare-breasted belly dancers were ogled by, among others, a sprinkling of admirals and generals. Little wonder that Stevenson has sought legal counsel to have his post restored and the letter of reprimand removed from his file...
...already headed for a promotion tour through 13 states. All of which will probably keep the Argentine Firecracker apart from her three children, her new $175,000 Connecticut estate and the new sobersided Wilbur for quite some time. "I still love Mr. Mills," said Fanne last week. Small wonder...