Word: wonderful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There's not an editor in America who didn't wonder what he or she would have done in the case of the National Security Agency spying story and the recent Treasury revelations. It's impossible to say unless you had all the information before you and could hear the case the government made against publishing. But I believe the moral calculus of whether or not to publish is a basic one: Does the potential harm to public security outweigh the likely benefit to the public interest? If it does, hold fire. Attempting to answer that question isn't easy...
...aren't the leading young novelists anymore, who are? It's not an idle question. The novel is one of the most vital cultural resources we have--a private, potent means of sharing the unspeakableness of daily life with one another. So it's only natural to wonder who's taking care of the novel--who's taking up the torch and where exactly they're taking it. Or whether it has gone out. The novel is one of the platforms from which the voice of a generation speaks. And if you listen closely, you'll start to wonder...
...unacknowledged instinct for the jugular, which she ever so sweetly deploys. You surely can't blame Streep for letting Miranda's mask (white blonde mane, white-on-white makeup) slip from time to time - especially since she so quickly recovers from these shows of vulnerability; you have to wonder, in these moments, if they are part of a game she's playing, trying to seduce Andrea over to the dark side...
...that adult acquaintances expect more from me. Every Harvard undergraduate, every top student, invariably feels the burden of expectations: Mediocrity is unacceptable. Yet, I’m not the only overqualified employee at the theater. One of my colleagues attends NYU. Another goes to Dartmouth. One cannot help but wonder why this movie house has such a credentialed staff. It’s certainly not the pay. Nor does the job offer great excitement or intrigue. Rather, the draw seems to be very mundane nature of the work itself. After traveling through the academic year at warp speed, a languid...
...Given Blagojevich's record of family and political scandals - feuding with his alderman father-in-law and a federal investigation into pension and hiring irregularities - it's no wonder that many critics and pundits wonder if the Governor's lofty goals are just posturing. The state's record on education and children's well-being, after all, isn't much to brag about. The state has some of the top public schools in the country, but ranks near last overall in education funding. And while the group Kids Count reported this week that Illinois shot up from near bottom...