Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think that Auden was reduced to calling Hegel silly and could think of no better way to describe Mozart than "a genius." Sometimes, reading Thank You, Fog, you wonder if Auden isn't parodying himself and his early poetry, from which he grew to feel so remote that he revised many of the most successful passages and even excised some of his most famous poems from new editions. While he once kept light and serious verse considerably apart, in Thank You, Fog he mixes them with such a dead-pan expression that he is rarely very serious or very witty...
...with the [Senate Rules] Committee more than a month ago. I just want a forum to explain the matter because it is being misinterpreted. As a perfect example of what's happening, I note that three members of the House Judiciary Committee say that they are beginning to wonder whether they can vote for Governor Rockefeller. On what basis do they wonder? I haven't even been before their committee to have a chance to say anything. Do you realize that it's been two months since my nomination and it'll be three months before...
House. That depends, of course, upon how well he performs as Governor. His fellow Democrats have reservations about his style. "It's so cold," says one. "It makes me wonder how Jerry will react in terms of welfare mothers, of prison reform, of issues when it's not just theories but people that count...
...raucous with gallows humor. There is probably not an outright comedy on Broadway at which one could clock more smiles, snorts, giggles and guffaws. Quite apart from the patients' sometimes grisly jests, the response of the audience obviously has complex, uneasy, psychological roots. Laughter is a wonder drug by which man anesthetizes his consciousness of mortality...
...should like to make two points concerning the ongoing controversy between certain African-American faculty members and administrators. First, if the level of debate between Professors Kilson and Guinier is a reflection of the African-American intelligentsia's grasp and articulation of the African-American situation, it is little wonder that street-and-prison-educated people have consistently filled the ranks of the African-American leadership since the death of W.E.B. DuBois...