Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nurse spotted a woman patient who was watching the dance with childlike wonder as she squatted cross-legged in the shadows. The nurse talked soothingly to her for a while, pushed the hair back from her face, then put the tambourine in her open hand. The patient's fingers closed around it. With more coaxing, she shook it so that it tinkled. She smiled faintly. She shook it again, harder, and the nurse asked, "Isn't that fun?" The patient murmured, "Yes, I believe...
...Yale graduate (1915) who has seen most of the Y-P and Y-H games I saw an occurrence yesterday at the game in the Yale Bowl which makes me wonder whether I am dumb or just getting old. It occurred possibly fifteen minutes before the game began and had to do with a young Harvard student who apparently was connected with the Harvard football team in an official capacity. My wife and I were sitting in the general admission seats when down the field came the young Harvard student. At each five yard stripe he would reach down, pluck...
Some 3,000 members of the National Association of Manufacturers met in Manhattan last week to talk about business under the Republican Administration. Having racked up a record year in output, it was small wonder the manufacturers thought that doing business under the G.O.P. was just fine. But they were soon reminded that the new Administration can wave no magic wand to wipe out taxes and Government deficits...
...three kinds of producers," says Stanley (The Men] Kramer. "Those with ideas and no money, those with money and no ideas, and those who command a sufficient amount of both." In his eight years as an independent movie producer, almost three of them with the backing of Columbia Pictures. Wonder Boy Stanley Kramer placed himself in the third category. He startled his competition and movie critics with such films as The Sniper, Champion, Cyrano de Bergerac, Home of the Brave, Member of the Wedding, High Noon. Some of these, and a few others (The Four poster, Death of a Salesman...
What happened to the Boy Wonder? One critic has said: "There's little compassion in Kramer's pictures. They are cold, metallic, and beautifully done . . . But they are devoid of humanity. They don't touch your heart...