Word: wonderment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Betty Lou Pinkus, head majorette of the Indiana State Normal College, commented last night, "It's just a wonderful idea for Radcliffe coeds to lead Harvard cheers. I don't wonder that cheerleading is in such a bad way at Harvard if all they have is a bunch of boys...
After reading the press comments on Mr. Dulles and his China policy [JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES-Oct. 13], I wonder if there are not still some who consider the wisdom and integrity of this man, who find his view logical and who prefer that principle not be diluted with expediency...
...smoothly embarked on the international operatic circuit. In her rise to the top she has experienced only one real failure-a performance of Traviata at La Scala in 1951 in which her voice broke twice on high notes. The audience of rabid Tebaldi fans "exclaimed in wonder and dismay," as she puts it, and Renata took to her room for two months. But with characteristic stubbornness, she then accepted an invitation from the San Carlo Opera in Naples to sing nine successive performances of Traviata, and earned nine successive ovations...
...with hardly a change. Since then the U.S. has changed, and with it the idea of mass production. Today manufacturers not only change their models frequently, but turn out everything from electric irons to autos in a bewildering variety of models and colors. Many manufacturers are now beginning to wonder whether they are doing the consumer a service-and whether they have not strayed too far from the basic principles of mass production. Says Judson Sayre, president of Borg-Warner's Norge Division: "Multiplicity of products is creating a trend toward phony obsolescence. Industry, in trying to create obsolescence...
...startling ineptitude of the Crimson's performance against Penn raises several disturbing questions. . . . One cannot help but wonder now whether its fine victory against Dartmouth the previous week was not just a flash-in-the-pan. Furthermore, it is hard to escape the conclusion the varsity may have some bad moments against the three Ivy opponents which it still has to meet...