Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then there were the performers themselves. If you pause to think for a moment during the movie, you realize that these are grown, supposedly staid Britishers masquerading as animals in bulky hooves and fur. At first rational thought it seems ludicrous; at least you wonder why they are doing this. But it is apparent that the dancers are having fun: they love the dance, and even as much as that they love the characters they are portraying...
...Nguyen Van Thieu's one-man run for reelection. Before the campaign started in late August, newspaper seizures for the year totaled 291. Since then, up to the time the polls closed last week, there were nearly 200 more, and virtually all victims were anti-Thieu papers. The wonder is that the regime bothers. Because of government corruption and inefficiency, the seizures seldom suppress a paper entirely, and because the Vietnamese press has a longstanding reputation for venality, relatively few people pay much attention to its attacks on Thieu in the first place...
Inside, Nixon spoke to an audience of 5,000 that included civic and labor Pooh-Bahs but was dominated by businessmen. The President noted that he was rather "like the preacher talking to the choir." Members of the choir liked the President's sermon-and no wonder. It put stress on protecting domestic industry and boosting profits...
...Fred Brown's assuming that a unisex society is sick and immature is a result of a pervasive fear of women and everything feminine, and should itself be closely examined by the psychologists. No wonder we feminists are angry...
Most black prisoners would welcome prison reforms. But for those growing numbers who are becoming intransigently ideological, reforms may seem irrelevant, even a dangerous distraction from their goal of eliminating the "racist system." After George Jackson's death at San Quentin and after Attica, penologists wonder whether any reforms within the current prison framework would mollify such prisoners. "Their anger is not directed toward the prisons but toward society," says Peter Preiser, New York State's Director of Probation. "The problem of the militant inmates festers beneath everything we are trying...