Word: wondering
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OPEC's exercise of its new power for political as well as economic purposes is a strategy learned from the West, including the U.S. The wonder is that it has been so long in coming and that it has been exercised (so far) with comparative restraint. It is encouraging that the producer governments have been urging a cooperative solution of the "recycling" problem. In contrast, the tendency far too prevalent in this country has been to emphasize an adversary relationship, with an undertone of threat. For a great nation comparatively well off, this is as unbecoming...
Many, perhaps most, people who seek psychiatric help have some sort of destructive impulse, and their threats or wishes to see someone dead are routine and generally harmless ways of letting off steam. But many therapists wonder if juries will think so if a patient later really decides to kill someone. "It means," said Psychiatrist Robert L. Marvin of San Francisco, "that a jury can decide by hindsight whether a doctor has used the best professional judgment...
...neither the sense of childlike innocence nor the wonder of revisiting a durable fable is lost. Stephanie Mills, wistful and staunch as Dorothy, sings like an angel on furlough. Her companions, the Scarecrow (Hinton Battle), the Cowardly Lion (Ted Ross) and the Tin Woodman (Tiger Haynes) are equally winning and bring complete conviction to their roles...
...want population growth in the poor countries to stop so that the poor can lead decent and dignified lives--or so that the rich countries can consume even more? His observation that population growth may endanger the skier and take the fun out of golfing might make a Nigerian wonder how serious Brown's stake in his interest really...
...York. "Clyde never lied to me then," says Hunter, "and he never lied to me now." Add to Kluttz the appeal of the Yankee heritage ("Just walking into Yankee Stadium, the chills run through you," says Hunter) and other assorted blandishments, including a letter from Mayor Abe Beame. No wonder Catfish was intent on trading Oakland's mod pastels for New York's dignified pin stripes...