Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...China like a modern Marco Polo went on to other foreign policy victories, won almost unanimous confirmation as Secretary of State from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last fall, and only two weeks ago returned in triumph from the Middle East after accomplishing a great diplomatic feat. No wonder that Kissinger, basking in success, did not notice that the cloud behind his shoulder had grown darker and more threatening in his absence...
...natural enough for the middle class to pull out of the slums once they can afford to-just as other ethnic groups have done. But by leaving, they abandon those who cannot escape the ghetto to its more rapacious elements, aggravating the spread of crime and decay. Small wonder that middle-class blacks feel some guilt and ambivalence about fleeing to better neighborhoods...
...they were kind," Leonard says of the HEW bureaucrats who had the responsibility for passing on the fitness of Harvard's affirmative action plans, "but they were also unyielding." Considering that it took Leonard nearly two and a half years to get an action program approved, there's little wonder that he now thinks of the Civil Rights officers as tough bargainers...
...this is dubious. Take for example the case of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which supplies Harvard with the bulk of its academic staff. Of the 550 students who were admitted to GSAS last fall, only eight were black. Under conditions such as these, it is little wonder that Harvard can make the claim it must go slow on affirmative action because it can not find enough qualified minority candidates for Faculty posts...
Balancing Rosovsky's idealism is his training as an economist. He said to an alumni group, "Recently, I have begun to wonder why it is that economists have become so involved in top university administrative posts. Perhaps many of you will think we are not good for much else. But I believe the answer lies in the fact that economists are familiar with the all-important notion of trade-offs...