Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many court observers wonder. As of last week, the Justices had held over eleven cases until next fall, one of the highest totals in memory. After last week's output of 24 cases, the court had eight to dispose of before it could close for the summer this week. The even larger than usual last-minute caseload is at least partly due to the Douglas disability. During the vacation, the other Justices hope that the still hospitalized Douglas will be able to recuperate sufficiently to resume his duties. No one now believes he will retire willingly. Indeed...
Guest Editors. Small wonder. Starting the kind of polished, expensively produced weekly that Coppola wants would be difficult even in a metropolis like New York or Los Angeles, let alone a second-tier city like San Francisco (pop. 675,000). In addition, Coppola has drawn up a list of "guest editors" he plans to invite to put out entire issues. Among them: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Conductor Seiji Ozawa, Rock Singer Sly Stone, Patty Hearst's ex-fiancé Stephen Weed and "an Italian fisherman...
...Americans. However, since I spend my day shaving someone's grandfather, dressing someone's mother, taking someone's third cousin to the toilet, feeding someone's great-aunt, and trying to communicate with someone's father who has suffered a stroke, I often wonder who will be doing these things for me when...
...Nation, made much less by people hoping to glorify the land of their grandparents than by people working to provide a decent, prosperous life for their grandchildren. European nationalism hallowed the past; this new American nationalism hallowed the future. The very same features that had made the Revolutionary generation wonder whether there could ever be one nation across the continent-the vastness of the land, the diversity of landscapes and climates, the conglomeration of peoples, the mixture of skills and traditions, the variety of religion-finally proved to be the nation's peculiar strength...
...that no people was quite as peculiar as Old World nationalist leaders had urged them to believe. You became an American by coming to a strange land and learning to speak somebody else's language. Broken English would be the only tongue that really expressed our history. No wonder, then, that education became our national fetish, for the public schoolroom was the frontier of the mind, where children of older nations learned to speak a common language...