Word: wondering
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Judging from the overall outcome of the balloting, though, the minds of seniors are working in some bizarre patterns. Following Allen in the balloting were television commentator Walter Cronkite, comedian Bill Cosby, filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, and wonder boy comedian Dick Cavett. Madame Binh, Class Marshal Dake reports, finished seventh...
...Stefan Kanfer's Essay, "The Returned: A New Rip Van Winkle" [Feb. 19], was a deeply penetrating and moving emotional experience. It may have served as a guide to the new America for the P.O.W., But it also forced me to wonder what and where "home" really is in this country...
...Soviet Union. The popular feeling, though, is considerably cooler: one recent poll showed that 65% of the British public disapproved of his handling of the Viet Nam War. Italians admire Nixon's pragmatism, a quality notably lacking in their own politicians. Germans like his political finesse, but sometimes wonder about his dedication to the Atlantic Alliance, and hence to their security. In France, Nixon's policy of benign neglect of Europe in the past has suited the Gaullists fine...
...emphasis on mobility, expansion, informality and disregard of class barriers and inherited privilege. Yet there is a widespread feeling that the U.S. is in chaos, deeply divided, unable to act, and economically on the fringe of a major crisis. Such British America-watchers as Louis Heren and Andrew Shonfield wonder about the imponderable effect of a triumph of conservatism in the U.S. Heren is one of the few to perceive a "new equilibrium" in the U.S. that he regards as an encouraging trend away from unrest. In recent years, Europe has been infected with what has seemed America...
...ears." Despite that stand, his appointment has been as well received by the commission staff as it has on Capitol Hill. Some powerful members of Congress have their own ideas for legislating changes in the securities industry. Cook remarks dryly: "I hear Congress is loaded for bear, and I wonder if I'm the bear." So far, there is no sign that he is. His confirmation hearing whistled through the Senate Securities Subcommittee of Banking and Currency in less than an hour...