Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constitutional wisdom of the Electoral College has been proved again. The specter of forcing an election into the Congress is mild if compared with the crisis we would face in a close election based on popular vote. Recounts, absentee ballots, and other less legitimate vote juggling in close precincts would keep an election in doubt for months. The Electoral College isn't perfect, but it's usually decisive. And if it fails, I'd rather trust Congress than Cook County...
...your very perceptive Essay, "The Difficult Art of Losing," you overlooked perhaps the sweetest sour grape ever uttered: On March 9, 1832, Abraham Lincoln said, "If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined...
...than Jove. When he hurls his anathemas, he tends to scream unintelligibly, suggesting the hapless actor of whom Kenneth Tynan wrote that listening to his Lear "was like lip reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning." But during the storm on the heath, Cobb's Lear gains in compassionate wisdom what he loses in pride and sanity. As he shelters the shivering Fool, listens to the gibberings of mad Tom and later gazes into the bloody, eyeless face of Gloucester, Lear sheds his vanity and learns of his oneness with "unaccommodated man . . . such a poor bare forked animal...
...truly supports. A rarity in the past, the players' acting rapport is a tribute to the skill of Director Gerald Freedman. Philip Bosco's Kent is a beautifully modulated performance with a Gielgud-like delivery of the Shakespearean line. Rene Auberjonois as the Fool is a supple mime of wisdom and Stephen Elliott's Gloucester is a man of probity incarnate, woefully abused. Barbette Tweed's Cordelia is appropriately sweet and good; Patricia Elliott as Regan and Marilyn Lightstone as Goneril are properly serpentine. Only Stacy Keach disappoints, by failing into smirky stage-villain mannerisms as Gloucester's bastard...
...wisdom of the black students is for total separation, the crunch will come...