Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Little wonder. Campus hostility to Nixon exploded last spring when the President announced the mining of Haiphong harbor. Students across the nation took out their anger on the nearest "imperialist" institutions they could find, usually stores, banks and campus buildings. The rioters smashed windows, broke doors and set buildings on fire in an outburst of what counterculture lingo identifies as "trashing" -spontaneous revolutionary vandalism. The bill for that spree is yet to be paid. In Berkeley, a group of 31 merchants this month filed a claim against the city for $170,000 in damages, asserting that police failed to protect...
...wonder," he writes, "where else in this country past history and present social conflict conspire to bring forth so much of the evil in people, so much of the dignity possible in people, so much of the 'pity and terror' in the hu man condition." Farewell to the South honors these contradictions and bears witness to a slightly grotesque but most realistic hope...
...imposed on otherwise stable communities. The projects' own residents, admitted only if their income is below prescribed levels, argue that they are being segregated from the rest of society. Worst of all, inflation has so increased the cost of operating buildings that many housing officials are beginning to wonder if they can any longer meet their mandate to provide decent low-rent shelter...
...there are now 357 divorces for every 1,000 marriages, it is little wonder that children do not necessarily heed their parents' advice or consider marriage their ultimate goal. "There's a healthy disrespect for the façade of respectability behind which Albee-like emotional torrents roll on," says Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin...
...Ministry of International Trade and Industry have extended the campaign to bosses by fining supervisors who insist on working holidays and their normal days off. The fines range from $3.25 to $6.50 for each violation-a much larger sum in Japan than in the U.S. Some American workers who wonder if the boss will ever go home might wish to see the practice spread more widely...