Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, there were many days in the early years of the war when the situation looked bleak, when it seemed impossible that the Allies could overcome the lead the Axis powers enjoyed. Through those dark days, Roosevelt retained an imperturbable calm. To the endless wonder of his aides, he was able to relax and replenish his energies each night to face the struggles of the following day. Every evening he held a cocktail hour where the rule was that nothing could be said of politics or war; instead the conversation was deliberately turned to gossip, funny stories or reminiscences. Only...
...need not choose between these visions. Both are true. Both are untrue. What we need to do is wonder at how firmly this brief, incredibly fecund period set the terms of the cultural argument that would preoccupy the rest of the century. The shock of the new drew much of its reshaping, revolutionary force from frustration with outworn artistic conventions and had been gathering strength and energy out of repression and dismissal for at least 50 years...
...certainly valid to wonder whether this procedure has the potential to foster some sort of apathy towards patients," says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "But it's difficult to strike a balance between the need to teach residents and interns the procedures they need to know to save people's lives with the need to provide patients with unwavering comfort of care, right to life, empathy and respect." These two positions are neatly represented in Thursday's report; of 234 residents and interns interviewed, two-thirds felt the tube-threading procedure should not be performed. The remaining doctors disagreed...
...France's worst storm in this century highlighted an advanced industrial society's vulnerability to nature's wrath. "The sight of toppled steeples and chimneys and craters opening up in old structures all over Paris after a storm makes you wonder what a small earth tremor could do to this city," says Crumley. "In the end, it's a sign that nature can't be totally leashed or predicted." At least Mother Nature had the good grace to strike a week before the New Year - had the storm come amid Friday night's planned outdoor celebrations in Paris, the death...
...promised "A new gospel based on archaeology and the Bible," but Price's article was simply a trite amalgam of the synoptic Gospels (Mark, Matthew and Luke). The historical Jesus deserves better than a narrative dressed up in cute, up-to-date literalism. No wonder the Jesus on the cover was shedding tears. Price's words reflected pious ignorance. (THE REV.) ERNEST W. COCKRELL St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Saratoga, Calif...