Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S. Some great players (Jason Robards, Joseph Wiseman, Harry Andrews, Denholm Elliot, Norman Wisdom) are obviously having the time of their lives in this raunchy, affectionate tribute to oldtime burlesque...
...scene had not been quite so auspicious earlier, as Pierre Elliott Trudeau arrived in the capital in a rainstorm. President Richard Nixon's first state visitor looked unwontedly grave, nervously kneaded his hands, and said rather awkwardly that he looked forward to "the information and wisdom that you will want to impart upon me in your talks." Trudeau had every reason to be wary. His government is upset over U.S. attitudes on oil imports and wheat prices. It is apprehensive about Nixon's Safeguard ABM system. It is engaged in an intensive review of foreign and defense policy...
...defense witness last week at the Sirhan trial, admitted that the jury might have trouble believing his testimony that Sirhan killed Robert Kennedy while in a self-induced hypnotic trance. To the layman, this would be an "absurd, preposterous story, unlikely and incredible," he allowed. The reputation of psychiatric wisdom was certainly smudged when another expert witness at the trial, Psychologist Martin Schorr, admitted that he had relied heavily on the terminology of another man's book to formulate his own description of Sirhan's state of mind. No wonder that one of Sirhan's attorneys carefully...
...artful jailhouse lawyer among the losers and small fry of criminality, James Earl Ray had plenty of opportunities to learn the wisdom of keeping his mouth shut. Playing D. & D. (deaf and dumb) with cops was a lesson taught in the quiet back rooms of precinct houses. And until he achieved "the big time" in Memphis, the killer of Martin Luther King never merited the attention of policemen who relied on brains rather than bullying...
...that Adler hasn't tried to correct this impression. He actually read through all the speeches and writings of Nixon's career to put together this incredible collection of boring anecdotes, ho-hum gags, and two-bits philosophy (typical piece of Nixon wisdom: "A man must be judged by the decisions he made or didn't make, not by how he dots an 'i' or crosses...