Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Muffet, and lived pleasantly in a world of welterweight music, gardens, politics, and a tidal wave of Neuberger articles. In 1950 after Dick had graduated to the state senate, Maurine filed for a seat in the lower house. Both, of course, ran as Democrats. Dick has said that people wonder why they insist on sticking to a party label that was such a liability in Oregon. He explains: "Evidently martyrdom suits our personalities. Maurine and I enjoy being caribou in timberwolf terrain. It gives us a sense of high adventure and derring-do." During legislative sessions in Salem, the Neubergers...
...government's failure to establish that essential of true independence - law and order. From sunset to sunrise, the banking center, all the great commercial godowns and the store houses are cordoned off by troops to prevent looting in the heart of the nation's capital. "Small wonder the army can't suppress the terrorists in the country side," said an acidly. "The bandits in the capital itself don't give them any free time...
...wonder that there are so few good plays on the professional stage. There are a fair number beginning with "magnificent" and ranging to the more dizzying and imaginative height of superlative, and there is certainly no lack of abominations that waste everyone's time, but just good plays are rare. Perhaps it is because a producer is more confident of a play that is extreme, one way or another, than of a solid, bread-and-butter show that should neither fail nor celebrate staggering success...
...mediator between these two conflicting forces is a sympathetic but misunderstanding hired hand. Parker Fennelly impersonates to perfection a cracked-voiced Yankee, and in view of the practice he has had as Titus Moody on the Fred Allen Show, there is little wonder. But because he is meant for comic relief, Holm should have given him more humorous lines, especially at the beginning...
...want to go on, put it on your shelves as an investment; don't discard it at a loss. It is strange how you can have a book-or a whole row of books by the same author -on your shelves for years . . . and wonder what on earth made you acquire them. Then suddenly one day . . . you will find yourself picking up the volume, settling down to it, enjoying it, and be completely at a loss to know why you never came to it before...