Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their admiration for his personal qualities. They remember Lenin's cynical observation about capitalists who are (or were) so naive that they would eagerly sell the rope with which they would be hung. But even some of those who accept Communist sincerity also recall the Prague Spring, and wonder how long a Communist Party in power in Italy could survive if Moscow disagreed with its programs...
...which includes 200 or more separate parties and splinter groups, is not overly impressed with the constitutional reforms. For one thing, critics note that the equal powers of the reactionary Upper House apparently involve the authority to block any legislation proposed by the popularly elected assembly. For another, they wonder about how much power the opposition parties will really have while even anti-Communists believe that the Communist Party-which might command only 10% of the votes-should be legalized, although the government argues that it is "too soon." "This 'constitutional reform' is nothing more than a cynical...
Readers who wonder why the author stretches Miss Herbert over 300 pages will also wonder why the book is difficult to put down. The reason is that Stead has constructed her trap with extraordinary craftsmanship and provided the perfect bait: a woman persuasively beautiful enough to arouse envy in the female and interest in the male...
...that those responsible for this heresy are now sitting back comfortably at 60 Boylston St. and elsewhere in the belief that they've finalized changes before we had a chance to speak up. But who, I wonder, will the laugh be on when the dollars stop flowing in and instead of olympic swimming pools and shiny hockey rinks down at Soldiers Field there will be nothing but 57 tetherball polies--and no tetherballs...
...records, $8.98 for eight-track tapes" -for Tchaikovsky's Greatest Hits and the Best of Connie Francis. Suddenly, a smoothly handsome, oddly familiar-looking young crooner appears on a softly back-lighted stage. While he pumps a microphone and purrs out a ballad, viewers begin to wonder: Como's kid brother maybe? An Italian Goulet? Then on comes the voiceover, hailing the "mood rock" sound of that nationwide heartthrob, Peter Lemongello...