Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot be demanded. One might reasonably have expected, however, a concern with the life of ideas which exists (hopefully) behind the movement of academic politics. Instead he is given a summary of the CRIMSON's front page and probably of a few meetings with Deans. It makes one wonder whether anything did transpire in the University besides the endless talk about expansion, besides the reports on the growth of religion (treating it like some kind of stock quotation), besides clanking of the machinery of political clubs, the Student Council, and all of the other Activities...
...merely to protect Barbara, the student assembly met to "reaffirm its belief that all bona fide students should be given an equal opportunity to participate in campus activities." The presidents of the two leading service organizations, the Cowboys and the Silver Spurs, recommended that students boycott the opera. "We wonder," said the presidents, "if, in order to qualify as one of Representative Chapman's 'loyal Texans,' we must abandon our religious heritage as Christians and Jews, and our political heritage as Americans." Meanwhile, angry letters flooded the student Daily Texan. One alumnus wrote that he was "deeply...
...Mike Wallace Interview gives a national audience a chance to watch the interviewer whose no-holds-barred technique made him the most talked-about Manhattan TV personality of the season (TIME, Jan. 7). On the basis of his first two Sunday night shows on ABC, the U.S. may well wonder what all the talk was about. Mike Wallace so far is disproving the skeptics who predicted that network TV would make him pull his punches. But in flailing at setups, Wallace is displaying little more than an overeager, poorly calculated striving for sensation...
...Warner Bros., producer of The Spirit of St. Louis (TIME, March 4), had reason to wonder if the epic's hero, Charles A. Lindbergh, is still a hero in his own home town. After big hoopla in Little Falls, Minn. (pop. 6,717), Spirit, showing in two local theaters, grossed a miserable $7.50 in one house on the second night of its run. Warner Bros.' take for the evening...
...Lace Curtain, Land I Have Chosen) wrote this book as a kind of sentimental duty to the past. By the time the upstart Mackays had become aristocratic, she herself outraged her Roman Catholic family in 1926 by marrying Songwriter Irving Berlin, son of Russian Jewish immigrants. She notes with wonder that her grandmother was born in an East Side slum only a few blocks away from where, 50 years later, Irving Berlin spent his childhood. With just such a sense of place she moves competently from the mining disasters in the Comstock to the horrors of fire that time...