Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nowhere else has the debate over neighborhood punishment become as heated as in Israel, where it triggered a Cabinet crisis that nearly cost Dayan his job. Fearful of losing public support in the U.S. and Europe, many Israelis questioned the wisdom and morality of fighting terror with terror. Dayan's opponents in the Israeli Cabinet seized on the issue to attack the Defense Minister...
...hero. The central figure is Basho, the great 17th century Japanese poet. To this role, Nicholas Kepros brings a wry gravity of mien and a musical clarity of line delivery that merits his being called Zen Gielgud. Basho is on a quest for enlightenment, a radiant shaft of wisdom that will have the direct luminous perception of one of his poems...
...writes about the emotional rather than the metaphysical. He writes about the passionate more than the romantic. And though not wholly unconcerned with the sound of words, he clearly subordinates poetry's musical dimension to the wisdom of the message. Rhythm is there (particularly when he reads), but is hardly a major concern...
...PEAPICKER IN PICCADILLY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Tennessee Ernie Ford takes his country sound to England and surrounds it with an all-British guest list including Davy Jones, Terry-Thomas, Norman Wisdom and Harry Secombe...
...Heart's Solitude. Increasingly, he notes, "there is but one way into the future: the technological way." Again and again, he tries to sober us up about the Great White Prophets in smocks. The new faith in computers, he warns, has made us forget the old wisdom of fairy tales: there is a frontier to man's kingdom where "predictability ceases and the unimaginable begins...