Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...citation: "In nature and common objects, free air and open space, she finds inspiration for bold expression--realistic or abstract--an intimate view of 'the wideness and wonder of the world...
Some Republican strategists, including an editorial writer at the conservative National Review, have begun to wonder whether ousting Nixon might not be the only way to save the party's chances in 1976. Such a move would give Spiro Agnew a stint as President before he would have to run on his own. By the same token, some Democrats reason it might be better to keep the Administration dangling on the Watergate hook until 1976, even if Nixon should turn out to be impeachable. Democratic Congressman Henry S. Reuss raised anew the possibility of a bipartisan, caretaker Government under...
...world today knows Rubinstein as an ageless wonder, the warmest of musicians, who at the age of 86 can still bring an audience to tears with his blend of drama and poetry. But in the early years of the century he was a Casanova in tails. His seemingly endless list of courtships had begun in his native Poland with a twelve-year-old girl, appropriately named Mania (he was ten at the time). Then came a staggering array of flirtations and affairs...
That autumn in Chicago, where she was performing in a play, he proposed to her. She turned him down. Years later, apparently, she told him that when she rejected him she had just learned she was pregnant by another man. "I often wonder," Maugham is reported to have told a friend, "what course my life would have taken had it not been for that... freakish circumstance...
...reason is in fact metaphysical or merely small-group psychological, DLC members on campus do seem to be just a little "blissed out." It was evident in the wide grins they had for each other (and most everybody else) at Davis's speech. And one couldn't help but wonder if it was this overt bliss as much as Davis's abandonment of the cause, that spurred on the angry hecklers...