Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Chicago's Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins that present-day man can find the cure for what ails him in the Great Books ("the minutes of the previous meeting"). Last week his theory drew a lively attack from one of education's new boy wonders, Harold A. Taylor,†† who at 33 is president of New York's progressive Sarah Lawrence College. President Taylor accused Hutchins (who at 48 is a kind of boy wonder emeritus) of living in the sterile past. Wrote Taylor in a column-long letter-to-the-editor...
...little else, can get pretty dull. Not even the talented, magnificent-looking cast can bring much of the film to life. There is a lot of engaging magic, but that, too, loses its appeal; there is too little sense of real life by which to measure its wonder. The picture is saturated in a kind of allegorized romanticism that is curiously musty. There are moments when the film almost achieves what it works so hard for-the enchantment of the audience. But enchantment is closely related to sleep; all in all, sleep is what this exquisitely contrived but rather precious...
...Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (20th Century...
...wonder if I should know something about football? I'm sure dates just love me to ask them all about it. The only thing I know is that you shouldn't cheer when your date is biting off his nails; and you shouldn't admire the wrong band. Everyone knows that Harvard's band is the best in the land...
...eccentricities, "How I Wonder" tries very hard to be honest. The scientist can take the presidency of a Southern college and keep quiet on political questions, or he can give up everything and in his ineffectual way try to prevent another war. A woman from another planet, also in his mind, makes up his mind for him, when atomic fission explodes her planet and it becomes a star, which he finds on his photographic plates. By this time the much-bruited question of whether the fellow is out of his mind should have been settled, but the author still seems...