Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raised at a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences earlier in the term, along with a number of other complementary and contradictory proposals. Many professors feel, one Faculty member said yesterday, that "non-Honors junior tutorial in several departments is not really very successful--we just wonder how we can improve...
...Vermont curiosity is traditionally impolite. Even so, Vermonters wonder why a state that ranks 48th in murder should rank so high in self-destruction (about five male suicides for each female, 3½ times as many gunshot deaths as hangings). Some have become rude enough to hypothesize. State Pathologist Richard S. Woodruff blames the suicide rate on three local factors: 1) two centuries of inbreeding, 2) mental depression stimulated by lonely mountains and rugged climate, 3) lack of mental health facilities. State Tax Commissioner Leonard W. Morrison adds a practical fourth cause. Says he of a state where...
From this prose Noah's ark aglut with fish and fowl, an olive branch of insight occasionally extends. The Old Man has a grave regional piety towards nature, and the Boy glows with a spontaneous, open-eyed wonder before it. The cycle of the seasons takes on a sensuous reality never suggested by the city-dweller's falling calendar leaves. But Author Ruark's major trouble is suggested by his title. Page after page of The Old Man and the Boy is mock-Hemingway in style and he-boy sentiments. Indeed, if Ernest Hemingway did not exist...
...finally, Wolfe's grand indictment of the class members: "False, trivial, glib, dishonest, empty, without substance, lacking faith--is it any wonder that among Professor [Baker's] young men few birds sang...
...Technology by Mysticism, effortlessly controlling and coordinating editorial personnel, contributors, office boys, cranks and other visitors, manuscripts, proofs, cartoons, captions, covers, fiction, poetry and facts, and bringing forth each Thursday a magazine at once funny, journalistically sound, and flawless. He had persuaded himself that I might be just the wonder man he was looking...