Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed "earnest, bland, sober ... a generation without profile, whose typical gesture is a great silent shrug." In Germany, a Volkswagen personnel man remarked with distaste: "By 19, most of them are satisfied little bourgeois." But the most plaintive and perceptive lament came from a parent in Denmark: "I sometimes wonder if our youngsters know they are Danish...
...wonder if Khrushchev is aware that America is more Communistic than Russia. We vote by our own free will to tax ourselves for the good of our neighbors-the wealthiest to pay the most taxes. We give to "drives" for the public good; rich men endow colleges and research foundations. Not so in Russia, a totally non-Communistic country, where nobody shares anything except at the point of policemen's guns. Nikita may learn something from a visit...
...Hofmannsthal during World War I. Strauss guessed correctly: since its premiere in Vienna in 1919, the work has rarely been staged in Europe and never in the U.S. Last week Die Frau finally appeared on a U.S. stage in a San Francisco Opera production that made cheering audiences wonder where she had been for the last 40 years...
...wonder is that booming Puerto Rico, an island with some 700,000 English-speaking residents, 1,500 new settlers (plus 230,000 tourists) from the U.S. each year, and a growing movement for U.S. statehood, has not a single English-language daily newspaper. San Juan's big Spanish daily, El Mundo, tried the idea twice, most recently in 1957, dropped the venture when circulation failed to exceed 7,000. Last week there was another entrant: U.S. Publisher Gardner ("Mike") Cowles (Look magazine, Des Moines Register and Tribune) announced publication of an English-language daily, the San Juan Star. First...
...young American ambulance driver in World War I to the old fisherman, far out at sea, engaged in his biggest struggle. The same combination of events and commentary, held in exquisite balance, gives Shanti Andia the thrust of life itself at all its stages: the child's wonder at his discovery of sunlight on water, the youth's engagement in voyages, the old man's sad reverence for what is gone...