Word: marveling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strong and effortless, Cragun tactfully puts a matinee idol's figure at the service of his roles, making Romeo, Petruchio and even Onegin believable and remarkably affecting. The marvel, though, is Marcia Haydée. Experts correctly point out that she is not a great dancer technically. Most would turn puce at the thought of mentioning her in the same breath with Margot Fonteyn. But few dancers within memory have projected the rangi of whims and wishes or invoked the delicate interplay of emotions that flow from the least gesture of Haydée's body, the slightest...
...course, is far from satisfactory as a means of communicating Muggeridge's experience. So, most often, is the linear description of any overwhelming emotional experience, as anyone will know who has rashly attempted to describe even so much as a disturbing dream. Gallantly trying to explain "the marvel of his experience . . . fitfully glimpsed, inadequately expounded but ever present," Muggeridge vainly invokes Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Blake and Bunyan, St. Augustine and Simone Weil. We respect but may not share his feeling that Christ himself once was with him and the BBC television crew on the road to Emmaus. His epigraph...
...Marvel of the Mets
...even asking, most of the members of the class of '73 will naturally join our Harvard-every year, the freshmen arrive more radical, less naive, more and more they have already tried dope, and like politics, they have gone beyond it. We just seem to sit back and marvel at such precosity, while remembering how painfully we reached the same kinds of consciousness. A few of you will try to defend Pusey's Harvard, and for you I feel kind of guilty. Because the rest of us will be trying to pull it out from under...
Those who want to divine why French public administration is a marvel of codified precision and bureaucratic bungling will find 61 pages on the subject. There they will learn about the schools that produce the French Establishment, quirks of the Code Civil, the ratio of policemen per capita (one for every 347 people) and the 1949 decree that governs a concierge's weekly cleaning of a courtyard, "devoting one minute and a half per square meter for the first forty meters and thirty seconds per square meter for the remaining surface...