Word: wondrousness
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...stop wanting to feel the goose bumps of cosmic wonder. We just pack up our curiosity about the universe and trundle it off to a place like Roswell, N.M., where a few unanswered questions are still allowed to live a furtive life. Though even there the wondrous quickly collapses into kitsch--T shirts and coffee mugs featuring darling little almond-eyed fetuses from space...
...even be glistening candles, not halogen lamps. This is the image of Harvard that brought me here: a Harvard of un-bricked fireplaces, dusty books buried in Widener and Houghton Libraries and benches dedicated to alumnae in Radcliffe Yard. It is the image of Harvard that I glimpsed at wondrous moments during my first year here, one that sometimes comes back to me as I walk home from the Science Center after evening sections. In those moments, late at night, I believe that if I listen hard enough, I can even hear the sound of horses on the cobblestones around...
...this has come at a heavy price. Fogerty's wondrous new album, Blue Moon Swamp (Warner Bros.), follows a decade of anger, frustration, fear and hard-won resolution. But you don't hear the turmoil that went into the making of these songs. Instead you feel the confidence and ebullience of an artist renewed, covering the ground at the height of his power, even if the album's 12 tunes work out, on average, to one every 10 months or so. Ask him why the album took so long, and Fogerty, 52 this week, has an explanation as honest...
Like a parent whose toddler is wobbling eagerly toward a wedding cake, etiquette can move fast when it has to. People think they can get away with using their cellular telephones at any time or place they choose, confident that etiquette is too befuddled by this wondrous novelty to set limits...
Hello, pilgrim, and congratulations. Your hard traveling has brought you to a strange and wondrous place: Right now, on a day you are lucky to be alive to see, the U.S. is enjoying its best economic and social health in 25 years. We're living longer, breathing cleaner air, drinking cleaner water. Crime is in free fall, with violent evildoing near a 22-year low, and the downtowns we once gave up for dead are bristling with coffee bars, green markets, life. New York City, that trusty symbol of terminal decay, is bloated no more. It boasts America's sharpest...