Word: wonderment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buttonhook Service" in the Pushbutton Age was indeed a great service to your readers. However, I wonder if we were not closer to "the perfect, unbreakable machine" back in 1950 than we are now. Are we not losing ground? Is progress in reverse gear? As Groucho Marx once said to the woman who was approaching 40: "From which side?" The only dependable gadgets in my home are the old ones. Why could we build such quality in years past and not today? Who sabotaged...
...week's end it was only possible to wonder who in what city tenement or guarded country home was laughing hardest at the joke on Al-who had gotten the chair at last...
...Against Death. Son of a Swiss professor of pedagogy, Daniel Bovet recalls: "We children were guinea pigs for testing father's educational theories. It was wonderful." As a boy. he grew mushrooms in the family cellar, cultivated molds in his mother's fruit jars. In 1929 the famed Pasteur Institute of Paris offered Biologist Bovet a job. By 1932 news reached Paris that Germany's Gerhard Domagk had found that a dye product, prontosil could be used to kill bacteria that cause common infections. Bovet and his colleagues at the Pasteur found that prontosil was "a clumsy...
...people of good will now think that man must rely entirely on himself, his science, etc. to improve his lot. I am inclined to think that way myself. But I think we have much to learn from the traditional Christian view of man and his destiny, and I now wonder whether it may not be more profound than the liberal humanism I've learned from my parents...
...they meant to cover, and what do they aim at? How long should he try to prepare for these ill-defined and sprawling areas? And once that Scylla is somehow desperately skirted, what of the Charybdis of the thesis? So many questions arise here that it is no wonder that only one solution seems at all sure; make the thesis a long one, cram it with learned footnotes and keep your own feelings and taste...