Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paul Williams '65, took one look at the thing, shivered in the depths of his own artistic soul, and set about rewriting it with the assistance of one David Odell. The changes must have been major for neither Crichton nor his book receive screen credit. Kind of makes you wonder who exactly lost out in the shuffle...
...look elsewhere. When I was a cynosure I spake as a cynosure, and when I grew up I gave the vocabulary to the parodists. Actuarially speaking, a generation has grown since I first appeared. Gazing at that boy with the red hunting cap on the old Signet paperback, I wonder: What would he think of me today? But then that gray-and-white snapshot in your high school yearbook-what is that youth to you? Would you have anything to say to each other...
...liked would be the guy that plays the kettle drums in the orchestra." Well, maybe that humanizing is behind some of the Jesus Revolution. Anyway, he would have liked the drummer at Superstar. Not the show, though. And I see I'm not the only one to wonder about the ducks in Central Park. Now they're worried about species I never even heard...
...remedial reading to kids and remedial living to me. We have two daughters, Esme and Phoebe. I know the rustle of little souls tossing in beds, and I no longer have to press my ear to the wire fence at the schoolyard to hear great dialogues of children who wonder, too, about Geppetto. Besides, I am at the schoolyard all day. Having tried a series of futile desk jobs, I realized I was not built to dwell in modules. The school at which I teach used to be as snobbish and phony as Pencey or Whooton. But one day they...
...Government's regulatory assault has added substantially to the jitters of the traditionally insecure ad field. In many agencies, all promotions must now be cleared by lawyers. Increasingly, specific claims are being dumped. For example, Wonder Bread has discarded a campaign that drew consumer criticism by asking children "How big do you want to be?" and hinting that the product could make them grow; the new "Fresh Guys" theme features animated loaves in TV commercials. More candor is creeping into ads. Pitches for Sta Dri now note that no antiperspirant really keeps people dry. The product's name...