Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debut, Playwright Jerry Mc-Neely, 29, deserved credit not only for an original fancy but for making his fable's dilemma both wonder-struck and plausible in the telling. By ingenious design, his exchanges between Mr. White and Mr. Black abounded in ambiguously open-ended clues to their real identity. He also managed a neat solution: a staring match between the contenders, proposed by the ornery town skeptic to keep the town from stampeding in favor of Mr. White. Isolated in a drawn circle, the two stared and glared away for days, without flinching or even growing a whisker...
...speakers were just two of the 50,000 Poles who each day last week filed in from all over the nation to look in wonder at the U.S. exhibit in Communist Poland's annual International Trade Fair...
...this quasi-metaphysical monster Steve offers up a colleague and friend who, he accidentally discovers, has embezzled $50,000 in company funds. At this point Steve begins to wonder whether he is a company man or a company mouse...
...depth of the lower-level Humanities and Social Sciences is one problem. These courses have undeniable impact, for their reading lists are scarcely surpassed in the University and they are usually very well taught. But some people wonder if they do not try to do too much, to read too many books. Except Humanities 6, the lower-level Humanities courses read no fewer than eleven great books in a year, and often quite a few more...
Lace & Mendelssohn. The wonder of Elgar's career (he died in 1934 at 76) was not that he failed to become a great composer but that he accomplished as much as he did in the stale, lace-curtained musical atmosphere of mid-Victorian Worcester, where he grew up. The fresh gusts of new music blowing off the Continent never stirred Worcester, and Elgar did not venture as far as London until he was 22. His father was a church organist and sometime piano tuner, and Elgar was raised on warmed-over Mendelssohnian oratorios and cantatas. He played the bassoon...