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Word: wonderful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Puritan ethos was a stimulus to striving and hard work; no wonder that it gave way to its secular descendant, pragmatism-the uniquely American philosophy articulated by C. S. Peirce, Dewey and William James. Americans are the exemplars of pragmatism, of rational humanism. The pragmatist, of course, does not deny the existence of evil-although he likes to call it something else. But he optimistically assumes that it exists in institutions rather than men, and can therefore be legislated away. Thus evils, in the American experience, have always been seen as concrete problems that could be dissected and analyzed-like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: On Evil: The Inescapable Fact | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...almost 50 points, to last week's close of 812, barely above the year's low. Trouble is much worse in the bond and mortgage markets, the nation's primary channels for funneling savings into the construction of schools, homes, factories, stores and hospitals. Some experts wonder whether, if investors keep expecting endless inflation, these fixed-interest bond and mortgage markets can survive in their present form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TURMOIL IN THE CAPITAL MARKETS | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...else you can convince us we need. The Sports Board is considered part of the News Board- and an important part. You can write mostly sports if you want to. You can write half sports, or you can write next to no sports. But, as Ben Beach, our boy wonder sports editor would say, "Sports is a groove." To repeat, the News Board Comp is Harvard's best introductory course to Harvard. (Consider the bright side: you'll be able to analyze and discuss with knowledge and precision exactly why you're miserable here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Putting the Crimson to Bed | 12/2/1969 | See Source »

...else you can convince us we need. The Sports Board is considered part of the News Board-and an important part. You can write mostly sports if you want to. You can write half sports, or you can write next to no sports. But, as Ben Beach, our boy wonder sports editor would say, "Sports is a groove." To repeat, the News Board Comp is Harvard's best introductory course to Harvard. (Consider the bright side: you'll be able to analyze and discuss with knowledge and precision exactly why you're miserable here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Putting the Crimson to Bed | 12/1/1969 | See Source »

...Rock. Wonder Woman. The Plastic Sheena. Whatever unladylike sobriquets attach to Raquel, there is no denying her box-office attraction. Clad mainly in animal hides and bikinis, brandishing her publicity photos like the jawbone of an ass, Raquel set about five years ago to hold off the entire critical elite of cinema and conquer mankind through Hollywood. Now only 29, she has enjoyed extraordinary success. Her brooding, aquiline face and brimming, arabesque body (37-22-35) have launched thousands of picture spreads. The mere mention of her name (or the sight of it, in endless Laugh-In balloon gags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Myra/Raquel: The Predator of Hollywood | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

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