Word: wonders
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...exercise. Like making a time capsule that never gets buried. Unless, of course, Mount Vesuvius erupts. In that case, if you have had time to pack your bag, it might be something for the archaeologists to unearth. They would puzzle over the PlayStation 2 and the butter dish and wonder what it said about who you were--and what you most feared losing...
...public. In “Not Even A Nice Girl,” Thurman discusses Anne Frank and the interest and controversy her diaries have generated since their publication. “Her readiness has a provocative quality to it—a voluptuous openness—and I wonder how many readers have responded to it,” Thurman writes. However, as she describes the responses Anne Frank’s diary has elicited from decades of readers, her own essay fails to evoke a similar reaction. Thurman’s analysis of the forces behind people?...
...that an opt-out policy will save Harvard almost as much water as originally predicted while keeping students who just can’t part with their water pressure content. Showerheads, though, should not be the only way in which Harvard curbs its water use. We cannot help but wonder how else Harvard could trim water-use habits. The next frontier, however, seems obvious: cutting use of sprinklers, particularly in autumn. After all, if Harvard is going to ask its students to use less water, can’t it do the same with its lawns...
...youthful Môquet, many observers note, was a communist committed to revolution; a poem he wrote on the day of his arrest promised to "kill capitalism," and sought to give heart to those "brothers in slavery (jailed by) the traitors of our country, those agents of capitalism." Little wonder, then, that Môquet has always been a preferred icon of France's Communist Party. In leftist solidarity, the opposition Socialists accuse Sarkozy of seeking to requisition a leftist icon to his own ideological ends...
...even though the cast’s acting and O’Reilly’s direction evoke wonder with such ease, Zimmerman’s script sometimes shoots itself in the foot. Ovid’s tales are supplemented with some of Zimmerman’s own commentary on the necessity of myths, how our modern, rational society is too unwilling to give itself over to the unexplainable, magical aspects of these durable stories...