Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Machado has his hero flirt with suicide and murder before he turns him into a philosophical autobiographer. What keeps Dom Casmurro from being a routine triangle drama is the wit and wisdom with which Author Machado embroiders his plot. As in Epitaph of a Small Winner, he breaks into his story with joshing asides to the reader, e.g., "Perhaps I'll scratch this out when it goes to press," "Shake your head, reader. Make all the gestures of incredulity there are." His piece of advice hardest to follow: "Throw away this book...
...like from the Decanal forehead, unaided by members of the committees involved and the Faculty. Rather, it was a matter of the Provost's ability to bring up ideas, to appoint good men to committees and to secure the best from them and to allow fully play for the wisdom of the Faculty as a whole without relinquishing the essence of either program. This combination of initiative, tolerance, and determination has steadily characterized his thirteen years in office...
...With the wisdom of long experience, he played only five relatively short works after the intermission, left plenty of time and played ten encores. Outside, the anti-Gieseking demonstrators drifted away long before the recital was over. Five days later, Pianist Gieseking flew back to Germany with more confidence than he had brought with him. Next season, he plans to sandwich a few more U.S. appearances into a heavy European schedule...
...their own ways. This way of life has withstood wars and political manipulations and experiments of all kinds." ¶ Demonstrate more ingenuity in production, sales and distribution. Full production will create tough competition, but Americans have never feared competition. ¶ Manage that enormous legacy, the federal debt, with wisdom. The total debt is more than $267 billion, with $32 billion maturing every 90 days. If debt policy increases the money supply unduly and overextends credit, there will be more inflation; if it drains the savings of the people too rapidly and credit is unduly restricted, the result may be depression...
...hero of his book is a 1 ft. 4 in. lizard named Frut, a happy-go-lucky character with a decent respect for the customs of his native tableland. Frut says his prayers dutifully, bows to the wisdom of the Sages, and even intones the slogan, "All lizards are born equal"-though he knows that the tableland is a caste society where high-born tablelanders like himself treat the lowly creekers (creek-dwellers) as slaves and sluts...