Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Restic finds himself staking out that same block of concrete, he will wonder about Frank Ryan, Babe Parilli, Willie Davis, and Ralph Jelic and why they couldn't be coaching Harvard and looking at the floor. He will wonder why Yovicsin couldn't be coaching another year while he (Restic) handled physical education. How much easier it is to worry about bowling shoes that don't fit and badminton rackets with broken strings...
...everybody lost in Viet Nam, and that the U.S. never did understand its foe. He predicts that ultimately "it will be a Vietnamese solution and we will probably never understand how it was reached." By then, he says, "Americans will have lost all interest in the outcome and will wonder why so many of our young men died so far away for a cause so few could name." One doubts that ten years of conflict and involvement will be quite so placidly dismissed...
...short passage. Ulam fatuously implies that the masses of people are running this country. He dismisses the possibility of Americans being "aggressively nationalistic," leaving one to wonder about prowar rallies and dead gooks. And most important, he fails to see the distinction between the ability to rule the world American-style--through corporate domination--and the "pleasant life" which most Americans are able to lead...
...feel that no hand has ever possessed a greater gift of wonder, of revealing in one single, decisive stroke the mystery of life in all its profundity," writes a critic named José Bergamin in one of the new books, Picasso at 90. "The most perfect, absolute, authentic Picasso, the Picasso par excellence, it seems to me, is the latest...
...clumsy feints at sophistication and its grotesque sentimentality prevail. "Do you ever think of writing 'I love you' on the inside of the tires you sell?" T.R. inquires of the salesman, who is understandably unnerved by the question. With dialogue like that, it is no wonder T.R. is alone and friendless...