Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this time, the whole school was in a state of emotional climax. What a man. The news photographers started snapping pix of Charlie and the whole school swarmed around him in awe and wonder. The band struck up the school fight song (unfortunately they hadn't prepared Onward Christian Soldiers for the occasion). That's my last memory of Charlie Christmas...
...wonder what they'll make of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast when it reaches them...
...wonder if I might add a minor footnote to TIME'S gracious and generous account of my corporate activities. All of the eight attempts at full faculty status in the University of Chicago were instituted not by me but by university chairmen and deans. In many of the instances there was a strong majority recommendation from the units in which I would have served. These recommendations were blocked by mysterious forces at higher levels. These forces are not only anticlerical but anti-Catholic. However, they are not typical of the university, and I do not charge the university with...
That is one reason perhaps why she has always been ready to pack in a hurry and trot off as a last-minute replacement. "You get a call in Bonn at 11 a.m. to be in Vienna to do the performance that night. I wonder if I can refresh my memory of the opera in time. Sometimes I haven't sung it for a year or two. I may listen to a tape of the opera for 20 minutes or so to see what's left in my head." What's left is usually plenty, although last...
...good skier, having won the Latin American Championships in his day, and he continued to win many races in the East far past his day. At 26 most skiers would have retired years ago, but for some reason Carter hangs on in both spirit and performance. Team members often wonder what makes Carter go, why he does things the way that he does, but no one really knows. Peter spent some of his childhood in South America, and the rest of it here. He learned to ski on a small hill behind his house and went on to become...