Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...engagement has just been announced, but skeptics wonder how long the honeymoon can last. Sally Quinn was out as co-host after four months in 1973; Phyllis George resigned after less than eight months in 1985. Instead of fretting over their boss's impatience, though, CBS staffers are pleased by the new, eternal challenge. Says one producer: "We went from being the class act of the morning to being the absolute laughingstock. Now we've got to regain what we had." And build...
...longer than 15 minutes knows that there are problems. But this picture of pervasive and profound despair and alienation was not at all what I saw." Scarf considers certain figures, including the 70% rate of infidelity, highly improbable: "Maybe she can find that in parts of Manhattan, but I wonder about Iowa...
...will it merely leave everybody frazzled? And even if it can work, and both men and women can succeed in playing all these roles, what then will they need each other for? What will have happened to the partnership, to love? Maybe Katharine Hepburn has the answer. "Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other," she once said. "Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then...
...evening study break in Grays East, Fitzsimmons sought to allay what he said is a common freshmen fear of the "admissions mistake." Fitzsimmons said that new students "often question the legitimacy of their place at Harvard when they are surrounded by so many exceptional people. They wonder how they slipped...
While working on nuclear-fission control at the Soviet Institute of Atomic Energy in 1958, the young scientist was stunned by his first meeting, in Geneva, with scientists from outside the Soviet Union. He still relates the experience with wonder: "For the first time I met foreign scientists, Americans, doing the same job and reporting their results. It was like meeting extraterrestrials -- extraterrestrials working with the same laws of physics. It was exemplary proof that science has no borders...