Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high school today," wrote Maureen Orth in a "Last Supplement" to the Whole Earth Catalog. "Acid trips in the seventh grade, sex in the eighth, the Viet Nam War a daily serial on TV since you were nine, parents and school worse than 'irrelevant'?meaningless. No wonder Jesus is making a great comeback." The death of authority brought the curse of uncertainty. As Thomas Farber writes in Tales for the Son of My Unborn Child: "The freedom from work, from restraint, from accountability, wondrous in its inception, became banal and counterfeit. Without rules there...
...conscious of being watched. I guess it's because we always fancy ourselves under observation. We seem to have the notion that average Americans find us especially fascinating; after all, even we usually find ourselves fascinating. I guess you'd have to call it vanity. I think we all wonder what the people behind the windows are saying about us. You know I didn't take the tour out of a love for buses...
...What wonder then that pure blind rage-the feeling that " there is some shit I will not eat " -drove many into an action that both unjust and stupid...
...wonder that most of the highly talented youth in this country who fail to go to college are girls. No wonder that those who do go often drop out at the flick of a ring. They have never really been in. They have not aspired to scholarship or service. This is not the dream of democracy: this is Brave New World...
...even put on a fireproof suit and ignited himself, but there was no applause. Later, when the magician was in his trailer making it with Randa, Glen stayed outside looking at maps. He found one of a place called Idaho, and some picture books about a lady named Wonder Woman who lives in a city called Metropolis that is all shiny and white and where people can fly. He asked the magician about...