Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stated [TIME, June 9] that the proposed cost of a U.M.T. program would amount to nearly $2 billion annually. We wonder what would happen if we doubled our educational program. Two billion dollars yearly would almost do that. We wonder how far $2 billion would go towards feeding the hungry peoples of the world. Could a lasting peace be established if $2 billion yearly were given to the church for advancing Christianity in foreign lands? . . . Would $2 billion lick cancer...
...once asked a Russian acquaintance what he thought about a Tass account of a U.S. Negro youth congress which condemned lynchings and the activities of certain U.S. Senators. He replied: 'Do you think we're all idiots? Don't you think some of us will wonder why the Negroes, if they're so badly treated, are allowed to hold meetings and denounce Senators...
Visitors accustomed to the sharp, snappy shots that cram the pages of picture magazines and camera annuals might wonder why critics rate Stieglitz the greatest artist in the short history of photography. The answer lay in the pictures, but it was not on the surface. Stieglitz had never resorted to trick camera angles and darkroom shenanigans for their own sake, never searched out dramatic subjects. His art called for consistent understatement...
...wonder that Joan's mind began to come apart. A prey to confused motives, she tried to "save" the girl from Heflin when she was really trying to save him for herself. She also gradually became convinced that she had murdered Massey's wife. Even more frightening hallucinations followed. After a fierce burst of melodrama, Joan winds up on the hospital cot. The cautious prognosis: she is a schizophrene, but conceivably curable...
Britten: Introduction & Rondo alla Burlesca and Mazurka Elegiaca (Clifford Curzon and Benjamin Britten, pianists; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides); Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings (Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Benjamin Britten conducting; 6 sides). The first recordings of Britain's wonder-boy composer to reach the U.S. His two-piano music is written in a pure, archaic style reminiscent of Britain's 17th Century great, Henry Purcell, though Britten adds harmonic twists of his own. The Serenade, done in a more contemporary vein, consists of poems by Blake, Keats, Tennyson and others, set to music that is artful...