Word: yondering
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...longer want their ears invaded by the oozy wash of sound. They prefer instead to hear counter point, to hear the architecture of the music. It is a restatement of a fundamental truth that speaks across the centuries." And somehow it speaks most truly in the lofty blue-yonder voice of the countertenor...
Viewed in the longer perspective, airline earnings are not spectacular. The lines lost $35 million in 1961, earned only $8 million in 1962, have just lately climbed into the jet-black yonder. Moreover, while the industry is still amortizing its present jet fleet, it has also ordered 480 new planes that will cost $2.4 billion. To the airline executives, cruising between past expense and future commitments, the present profits did not seem overly lavish-and the boss appeared somewhat unfair...
Airman First Class Marvin L. Jones, 21, stationed at the Ramstein, U.S.A.F. base in West Germany, likes to think of himself as having a wild-blue-yonder sense of humor. When his girl back home in Colorado wrote she wasn't going to visit him this summer, he wrote and told her he was so desolate that he was going to defect. The next letter she would get would be from the Kremlin, he added with gleeful literary pique...
...improbable adventure and is now up to its ears in the cold war world. Detective Dick Tracy, who once stalked gangsters on the streets, now marries Junior off to a moon maiden. Terry, who once snared pirates on the China coast, is now in the wilder blue yonder with an Air Force fighter squadron against the Viet Cong. Tired of designing fashions, Winnie Winkle has joined the Peace Corps, and is headed for underdeveloped Pornacopia. But Peanuts and pals are far removed from melodramatic plots and realistic art. They employ instead a deceptively casual style of drawing (the "toothpick school...
Beyond this great chamber-out yonder-in 50 states are the people that we serve. Who can tell what deep and unspoken hopes are in their hearts tonight as they sit there and listen? We can all guess, from our own lives, how difficult they often find their own pursuit of happiness; how many problems each little family has. They look most of all to themselves for their future, but I think that they also look to each...