Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tsked-tsked, one would think her admission was endangering national security. Only last year TIME did a cover story that in part took political wives to task for their dreary role playing. Now that we have a First Lady who speaks her mind, she is branded as tasteless. No wonder so many political wives hide behind frozen smiles and innocuous comments...
...black psychologist and leading education theorist: "The North is trying to get away with what the South tried. If the North succeeds, and I don't think that it will, it will make a mockery of our courts and laws." But other black leaders are far less certain and wonder whether busing really moves their cause forward...
...Kahn, a Meany assistant, "Al has been portrayed as power-hungry and overly aggressive. Personally, he's a shy, intellectual type." Shanker reads voraciously and likes to consider himself close in political attitude to the moderate liberalism of Commentary and Public Interest. In reflective moments, he professes to wonder why he got into the union presidency at all. "I never sought this career," he says, "I backed into it. I like to hike, be with my children, make bread and Viennese pastries. I don't have enough time for these things...
Britain's non-economic interests in Northern Ireland are hard to understand, and many wonder why it doesn't pull out. There are at least two reasons: First, a deep commitment to law and order and an unwillingness to withdraw troops or political control in the face of a terrorist campaign (even if this should extend to England as the Provisional IRA has promised it would); and second, strong diplomatic pressure from the European Economic Community countries, with large Catholic populations, to stay in Northern Ireland and protect the Catholic minority from any possible repression or massacre. Whitehall might have...
...would be realistic or even necessarily fair," she says.) But still she is not totally immune to doubts shared by those who claim that equal access--Harvard style--is not all it is cracked up to be, that sexist attitudes will continue to pervade the admissions process. "Sometimes I wonder," she says, "Am I kidding myself, are there really scoundrels around who're going to undermine the whole thing...