Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder whether Al understands that Harvard was chartered before the Commonwealth, and that there is some question which has the right "of eminent domain" over the other. The University would cherish an eighth House, and while a Central Square location may have its disadvantages, we can only urge that the Student Council vote--perhaps five to four--that the Cambridge City Hall be seized...
THESE were the ten days that shook the Russians. The two "traveling salesmen" failed. The triumphs to which they had become used in Yugoslavia, India, Burma and Afghanistan could not be repeated in Britain. This time the Russians blundered, and it will always be a source of wonder why they did or how they could. They should have been prepared for firmness and bluntness in an atmosphere of correct and polite welcome. The fact that Khrushchev lost his temper several times, antagonized his hosts, alarmed neutral opinion everywhere, and set back the Communist campaigns for popular fronts with Socialists proves...
...would hoist his 6-ft.-1-in., 200-lb.-plus frame onto a platform and deliver a fatherly lecture to the assembled villagers. His message: Communists are your enemies; report them instead of supporting them. (Said an aborigine leader: "Such a big man. Such a big voice. No wonder he is Sultan.") Some times the Sultan asked Communists in the crowd to step forward, like a revivalist calling on sinners to repent. But there the resemblance ended. The Sultan danced, sang and feasted with the villagers far into the morning, then retired, often in the company of a village maiden...
...writing along with the other 19th century greats, Hawthorne, Melville and Mark Twain. Over and above the others, James proved to be an enlightening bridge to the greatest of 20th century writing. In his psychological probings, he prefigured Proust's monumental Remembrance of Things Past. And in his "wonder of consciousness in everything," he pebbled the bed on which James Joyce's "stream of consciousness" was later to flow...
...undergraduate knows, a sociologist is a man who is daily astonished by the commonplace. Usually, this professional sense of wonder finds its outlet in recording masses of data and using them to suggest trends, shifts in manners and mores, and the like. Occasionally one comes along who, like Tho stein Veblen (The Theory of the Leisure Class), gives society a therapeutic, though not necessarily accurate, boot in the pants. But a few of them suffer from a rare though virulent occupational disease. They become hectoring critics of their fellow men. They scold. They even grit their teeth...