Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking back on last spring's great cut-that-budget fracas, an economy-minded member of Congress might well wonder whether it was just a dream. Despite all the battle cries that rang out on Capitol Hill, despite all the warlike swings of economy axes, that same federal budget now looms a cool billion bigger than President Eisenhower's year-ago estimate of $71.8 billion...
...mean, don't you wonder where it's getting you? Don't you feel, sometimes, that life is passing you by, just sitting here day-after day and pecking away and getting nowhere?" Prometheus paused to take a breath. "Don't you wonder, sometimes, if you couldn't make some fuller use of your capabilities...
...speaking of college generally, not of Harvard only). For education is primarily a matter of attitudes. By an educated man I mean one who has achieved a self-knowledge of his ignorance and consequently has waked up from his dogmatic slumber; one who has a sense of wonder leading to active inquiry--and here I have in mind a concern for the truth, rather than showing off one's cleverness. Finally, education should give a man the most rigorous methods and standards, thus ensuring that his inquiry is disciplined and effective. Great aims involve great risks; independence may turn into...
Democracy's Wonder. Politically, the second session of the 85th Congress has all of the volatile ingredients of an election year with a couple of H-bombs added. The Southerners, who were infuriated by the President's use of troops in Little Rock, hold powerful positions on military affairs committees, and will doubtless turn full fire on Administration defense shortcomings, both contrived and real. Carefully tuned to the new sounds of criticism of the Eisenhower leadership, the Democratic chiefs are returning to Washington aggressively determined to knock down Dwight Eisenhower and his Administration. Said Michigan's Republican...
...tenth year-the year of the horse -TV has shaken down into a schedule so dense with dross that tuning in at almost any hour is enough to make the dial flip. Perhaps the wonder-and certainly cause for cheer-is that the viewer who steers a knowing course through the immense, unending flow of eyewash can still find so much to charm...