Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about, conversation with male and female undergraduates, about these particular problems, where the same things were just said over and over and over again, sometimes in situations that were accompanied by tears, in a great deal of pain. And when you hear such common themes, you really begin to wonder. Something that I had thought in part as doing as a sort of tongue in cheek parody became, as I thought more about it, a grappling with things that I think hurt people very much, became a very different sort of thing...
...Kupferberg's idea for a "collective decision to cut back meat production"--if he is talking about this country, then I wonder how far in the future he imagines this process will occur. The oil-producing countries of the Third World started collecting a fair price for oil because they put together an effective cartel; not because the U.S. collectively decided to buy at higher prices. In the case of food, if the Third World is to get some of the protein it needs there will necessarily be less meat for Americans. How will this happen? Meat consumption will decrease...
Your treatise on the American pet was well researched and must have been a real "love feast" for all pet lovers. But when I see Mr. Warhol posing with the stuffed Great Dane, I begin to wonder where fancy ends and grotesqueness begins...
...Wonder Drug. In 1884, before he began the studies that led to the development of psychoanalysis, Freud was 28, a fledgling physician with a fiancee but without the funds to marry. He had been searching for some time for a way to establish himself and gain the respect of his colleagues. A paper by a German physician named Theodor Aschen-brandt seemed to provide the way. Conquistadores had noted the stimulant effect of coca leaves on Andean Indians. Aschenbrandt tried the drug on Bavarian soldiers and cautiously reported that while suppressing their hunger, it also increased their mental powers...
...fans at Watson Rink December 21 had to wonder if the team Harvard was outscoring, 6-3, really came from Brown University. Last year, former Bruin coach Allan Soares dressed Attila and his horde in Brown hockey uniforms and sent them out on to the ice at Watson to ravage Harvard, and leave a trail of 32 minutes of Bruin penalties, a game misconduct, a bloodied Kevin Burke and a 6-1 Harvard victory...