Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faraway hillside, Christ is delivering the Beatitudes. At the fringe of the crowd, where they couldn't hear properly even if they weren't wrangling among themselves, are the Monty Python troupe, misunderstanding. Blessed are the cheesemakers? The Greek shall inherit the earth? "I wonder which one?" someone asks, planning already to ingratiate himself with this fortunate fellow...
Kosinski is 46, and readers have a right to wonder whether his unparalleled ear for language and his eye for social nuance are to be used solely for elaborations of the same theme. For the past several books, Kosinski has been as aimless as his characters who believe that the going is the goal. That is not true for polo. It is even less so for novelists, even gifted ones. -Stefan Kanfer
...sometimes I wonder why children can't be born with an innate sense of respect. But at least one person has learned something about himself, because the children called him big nose...
...nobody, least of all the senator's staff, can put his finger on, although they're all willing to throw around the buzzwords of "empowerment and enfranchisement." Timilty is not really pushing decentralization of power, says a top aide, but "sharing of power." Insiders at the State House, meanwhile, wonder if Timilty is playing with a full deck; in the last campaign, White and Timilty exchanged some fairly rude comments about each other's mental stability. For Timilty, this is it: if he loses a third time, he may as well hang...
...gloomy job picture may continue for 20 to 25 years, and it has had some negative effects on morale among students, Kraus said. "It's a very human thing to think failure to find a job won't happen to you. But seeing it happen to others makes you wonder," he added...