Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something the Vanilla Fudge at their faster (and better) moments might have done, "Restrictions" is full of tight harmonies, clever and absorbing changes in rhythm and structure, and strong instrumentation. The song barrels along, never letting up for over six minutes, and when it's all over you wonder if you haven't been run over by the Long Island Railroad...
...comments of Norman E. Borlaug [Nov. 22], endorsing the use of DDT and other insecticides "until cheap, safe and efficient substitute pesticides are produced and made easily available," made me wonder what would happen if insecticides worked too well. Hindsight might reveal that an insect species, after the last of its kind had been killed, was valuable or even necessary for some ecological function. What would we do then? Breed another similar species...
...right wing rather than the left. Until I saw Nixon! I was inclined to believe him. However, Nixon! brings into the open a theme that winds subterraneanly through a good deal of Nixon criticism. The Nixons, you see, are thought to be frigid, asexual, virgin or impotent. So no wonder the left never attacks sexual misadventure on the right--the left won't even admit to the fact that the right has discovered sex, too. "The last fascist we castrated wasn't even smart enough to know it had happened," complains one of the burlesqued radicals in Nixons! The remark...
Charles U. Daly, Vice President for Community Affairs, commented philosophically on the administration's decision to close down the wine sellers, "I wonder what students will do now that they can't sell wine or condoms...
Flannery O'Connor is seldom compassionate. She means it about that perpetual shot in the head. Her quarrel with people is that they cannot or will not see the wonder and terror of their existence. "Do you ever look inside and see what you are not?" shouts a crippled daughter at her bovine mother...