Word: wondrous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news in science, week after week, falls into a wondrous variety of categories-from astronomy (the sweep of galaxies) to biology (the strange way of animals) to archaeology (the digging into man's past). Occasionally, as it does this week, the fascinating news in science comes under agriculture. Now quarantined in the Carolinas is a pesky parasite called Striga asiatica, or witchweed, that could cause more trouble than Asian flu and ruin crops from Virginia to Texas. See SCIENCE, Little Red Flower...
...Wondrous Seedbed. Thus, in one epic week, the members of the A.B.A. paid honor not so much to the seedbed of human liberty (for that lies in each human heart and not in legal systems or in history) but rather to the seedbed of the rule of law, which makes liberty possible in social practice and which holds out promise...
Your May 27 article on Picasso, assisted by wonderful reproductions, will be of much help in aiding the readers to understand and appreciate him. Picasso's art truly manifests the spirit of our wondrous age. No artist before him has been able to portray emotion on canvas in such...
...poets, the play doesn't seem ill at home in the Harvard community. Alison Keith is a real show-stopper as the aging, but still amorous devotee of the pseudo-poet. She has a real talent for comic gesture and routine with just the proper bit of stylization, and wondrous to say, she has a very fine voice. Elizabeth MacNeil, play the title role of Patience, a much-sought-after milkmaid, sings well and liltingly, but her acting seems the weakest among the principals. Perhaps this is just a touch of opening-night fever. Also, she could have been more...
...spirit to create sheer ugliness have never, unhappily, been easily checked, and the desecration of landscapes with one sort of architectural horror or another has always been a favorite field for release of these energies. Naturally enough, this skill has reached its apex in Our Modern Age with one wondrous achievement: the housing development...