Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Editor Thackrey promised to answer Co-Editor Thackrey a week later. In the meantime, readers were left to wonder why the Thackreys couldn't settle their arguments at the breakfast table...
...many a U.S. city, the wonder was that Seattle's symphony orchestra made such harmony on stage when there was so much caterwauling backstage, in the boxes, and in the business office...
...signs of the decline of the editorial page that many papers rarely get either brickbats or backpats. Editorial writers, feeling a little obsolete, often wonder out loud why they don't have as many readers as the comics and the sport pages. Last week, in the Saturday Review of Literature, the man who bosses the Courant's editorial page threw them some answers...
...many of our editorial pages," wrote tweedy, 49-year-old Editor Herbert Brucker, "are journalistic quick lunches, manned by short-order essayists . . . What ought to be incisive opinion all too often turns out to be a collection of cliches . . . Is it any wonder that editorials are read by only 49% of the men and 29% of the women...
Most editorialists, Brucker guessed, are moved by the "prophet motive." But the role "calls for more knowledge, time and energy than they possess. Most. . . are so busy that they stay in their offices, read the headlines, and say what they can about the news. No wonder the product is often dreary." Considering the pressures against them, it was also no wonder, he said, that many ducked local controversies and took refuge in faraway topics...