Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publish our acceptance of Mr. Raditsa's challenge, and our denial of the blatant misrepresentation of fact and irresponsible purveying of slander. (Yes, we say, irresponsible; we understand the "clubbie" who is "out to get Raditsa," and expect the reaction of an Eliot House tutor: "Poor Leo. I wonder what we did wrong.") Perhaps, Mr. Raditsa asks for this reaction in his introduction (as much as any individual can); we say that it is irrelevant, that the book has to be read in spite of this, that the insights should be considered seriously though the style of presentation begs...
...worth. His new one, A Walk on the Wild Side, reinforces his right to the title of poet laureate of Skid Row, but just as Novelist Algren had to find a new publisher to bring it out, so his old admirers have to reconsider their admiration. They may well wonder if his sympathy for the depraved and degraded has not carried him to the edge of nonsense...
...cynicism towards one's enemies begins to pay diminishing returns. Senator George expressed the fear last week that United States foreign policy has reached and passed this point. He criticized America's "universally adamant and negative attitude" towards Russia, an attitude that is causing our foreign friends to wonder just how valuable, or how profitable, our friendship really...
...amid all the pomp and circumstances of an Annapolis wedding, with pretty Roberta ("Bobbie") Gorsuch of Washington at his side. He had met her as a blind date, gone with her for three years, wearied his classmates with a favorite remark: "Lord, but that girl of mine is a wonder...
...wonder she had to be, for the life of a young Navy couple was not easy. In the wake of the Washington disarmament conference, the Navy was cutting its size and promotions were slow. Arleigh was assigned to the battleship Arizona, and Bobbie Burke spent the next five years scurrying from port to port on the West Coast. "As soon as I saw where the ship was docked," she says, "I started walking. Then I would rent the first acceptable place we could afford. Arleigh always liked to live near the ship...