Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heard of the iron-willed theatrical mother who pushes and pushes her kids to the top. Those mothers could all take some lessons from Mrs. Rose Kennedy. She never takes "no" for an answer. No wonder tragedy has stalked the lives of this blighted family. A little humility is in order for all of them...
...single essay was written in 1939 by the excellent English critic Donald Tovey; and all of the great Mahler conductors are either dead, such as Mengelberg, Furtwangler, and Walter, or, like Klemperer and Horenstein, extremely old. Since we live in a cultural ochlocracy, political beatitude aside, it is little wonder that this great nation should recognize Mahler's genius fifty years after that any, powerless ornament of the earth, Holland, Characteristically, the eruption of recent apologies have stressed him as a Bold Innovator or as a distraught mid-century man who is, like all of us course, pre-phoenix...
...week's cover story, Correspondent Simmons Fentress was struck by an unusual degree of camaraderie between newsmen and the normally businesslike presidential aides. "The reporters," says Fentress, "were all talking about their internal time clocks being out of phase, and the sources were discussing, their stomach troubles." No wonder Everyone had just returned from twelve days of traveling 24,500 miles and traversing 24 time zones during President Nixon's whirlwind tour of Asia plus Rumania...
...edited by Laurence Barrett. And as the magazine went to press, where was Fentress? In a jet once more, flying west to San Clemente and the West Coast White House, where the President will spend the next month. All of which led Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey to wonder if perhaps "the White House Press Room really shouldn't be a surplus Boeing 707 fuselage, where reporters can stay all day, writing stories, pinching stewardesses and drinking Bloody Marys." That, at least, is what they recently seem to think of as home...
...five million people, while combined Soviet-American losses from a thermonuclear exchange involving both first-and second-strike capabilities would come to more than two hundred and fifty million persons." Although most of the scientists' attention is centered on the Arizona desert, Michael Crichton, often unwittingly so, makes you wonder where the real disease really lies...