Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imagery and legends and stuff like that." Here he reverts to form: "I'm being very profound today." He has a succinct description of the kind of people his comics appeal to: "Those who are pure of heart, noble of soul, and look off to the far horizon and wonder what lies beyond...
...self-righteous about his country's democracy (he is too well aware of Venezuela's turbulent history), and he is too smart to seem to reach for any continental "leadership" role. He has large economic plans for Venezuela and many discontented citizens who wonder when all the oil money will matter in their own lives...
...moving to sell to them in their home towns too. Current issues of McCall's, Town & Country and Glamour magazines carry four-page abbreviated Bloomingdale's catalogues offering 29 selections that can be ordered by mail from the store's "Christmas in New York Collection." Among them: a "Wonder Wok" for $28, Aramis "executive" soaps for "your favorite male chauvinist," an electronic calculator in a silver Tiffany case for $150 and Rudi Gernreich-styled underwear...
...thirsty as you think, and anyway, you're not thirsty enough to drink that." Or, "No, wait. Don't drink that. The best thing for you, if you're really thirsty is this sand, no, seriously, you just take some of it like this and.." I wonder if I might have better luck if I turned to someone in Chem 20 or Ec 10 and told them that the system they want to become a part of is not really practicable, equitable, or even desirable, and that it might not last too long in its present form. The problem...
People forget easily, and do their best to ignore the things they cannot forget. I sometimes wonder what would happen if the violence that accompanied school desegregation in Boston were transplanted here at Harvard, if black students here felt the physical and psychic wrath of the white folks for a while. As it was, there was hardly a stir here. One would think that Boston was an isolated instance, that that stuff only happens in South Boston and Charlestown. Not so, black people, not so. Think back to the Price family (if you remember, if you heard), who lived just...