Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then, The Christian Science Monitor "Inside The News--Briefly" of November 29th, highlights "Iran tied to torture, political jailings. Indeed, this makes me wonder even more why we are becoming so deeply committed in quicksand in this part of planet earth...
...psychoanalysts I've talked to are uncertain about my theory," says Robert Stoller, a psychoanalyst and professor at the U.C.L.A. School of Medicine. No wonder. Stoller has managed to come up with a far darker view of sex than Freud's. His theory, which he admits he has put forth with some "trepidation": except for a few rare individuals, human sexual excitement is usually generated by hostility. If his thinking is correct, Stoller writes in the Archives of General Psychiatry, "we must bear the idea that sexual pleasure in most humans depends on neurotic mechanisms. It is disappointing...
...model of petty bureaucracy populated by the pompous, the incompetent and the foolish. A self-proclaimed scientific genius and follower of Lysenko, named Gladishev, for example, devotes himself to creating a hybrid plant that will grow potatoes underground and tomatoes above. He also believes in excrement as a wonder vitamin that could benefit mankind if only people would overcome their squeamishness. There are send-ups of education, collective farms, newspapers, law enforcement and party organizations. Voinovich's definition of an official meeting: "An arrangement whereby a large number of people gather together, some to say what they really...
...barrows, inhabitants of the Americas made do with skin tents, flimsy huts and caves. Technologically, the cultures of the Mediterranean and Middle East were even more advanced. Mesopotamians and the people of the Indus Valley could cast metals to make tools and ornaments-and keep written records. Small wonder that even centuries later, the peoples of the Middle East looked askance at the West. While their culture was flowering, Europe and the Americas were still in the Stone...
...STEVIE WONDER: SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE (Tamla/Motown, 2 LPs). A jamboree of songs, composed, sung, played and produced by that one-man music company known as Stevie Wonder...