Word: wondrous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Uganda, Tanganyika and Kenya, the key attraction is the elephant and all the rest of the wild, wondrous fish and game, as well as what Author Alan Moorehead calls "a certain exhilaration . . . The simple and perhaps childish pleasure of knowing that no one probably had passed this way before, and that no other human eyes had seen these particular animals roaming across the plain ... It was the sort of thing that skiers feel when they break new snow in the mountains, or sailors in a small boat in a remote...
Elliott Forbes' direction was properly energetic and good-humored. The program was, in fine, wondrous merry; I am full of admiration...
...some editorialists and cartoonists expressed doubts and disagreements. Said the Tulsa World: "President Kennedy has outlined to Congress a program so wondrous in its hopes, so broad in its ambition, that it seems almost sinful to wonder if it may be too far out of this world." Said the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram: "Although his picture tends to be overly grim, Kennedy has made a thorough and quite scholarly diagnosis of the ills of the nation and the world. When it comes to remedies, he is less persuasive. The specifics of his program remain to be tested in the congressional fires...
...gods were dark, ponderous, absolute. The Greeks challenged this authoritarianism with the restless spirit of inquiry. Against the hierarchy of the absolute, they set up "the prestige of the imaginary"-man's loftiest ideals fashioned in art. "The sacred was replaced by the sublime, the supernatural by the wondrous, and Fate itself by tragedy." Critics who believe that Greek sculptors were trying to achieve representational realism earn Malraux's ire. "Humanized but not human," a figure like the Winged Victory of Samothrace is no mere woman to Malraux, but an evocation of that "spark of the divine immanent...
...Painter. A waggish, 15-minute tale about the wondrous 'work habits of a dribble-and-splotch painter...