Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOHN WISE Middletown, Ohio...
...middle, President Jose Maria Guido, the ineffectual puppet installed after .Frondizi, pleaded for a truce. But the military rivals were beyond pacifying. As the shooting started, Guido, who at one point appeared to support the incumbent Democrats, now threw in his lot with the rebellious Legalists. It proved wise. After a series of sharp battles, the Democrats were driven from Buenos Aires. The victorious Legalists proclaimed themselves in charge and called for elections to return to constitutional rule...
Divorce-Italian Style. In the U.S., when a man wants a divorce, he goes to court; in Italy, so the wise guys say, he goes to a gunsmith. Why? For two reasons: 1) divorce is illegal in Catholic Italy; 2) the penalty for a "crime of honor" (the murder of a mate discovered in adultery) is light-with plenty of time-off for good behavior. The situation horrifies modern-minded Italians, but what can they do about it? Director Pietro Germi has done something wildly, wickedly, wonderfully funny about it. In one of the cleverest comedies ever made in Italy...
...golf's grand master, whose well-deserved popularity should have been enough to freeze any first-year man. But then in the British Open, next month, Nicklaus shot a disastrous, not-to-be-recovered first-round 80 while Palmer was burning up the course, and golf's wise heads wondered how good the youngster really...
When one of the inmates has a chance to free herself and, in a skillful variation on the close of Henry James's Washington Square, refuses to answer the beckoning call of normality, her final turning back to the house somehow seems wise and fitting. "I sat very quietly," Merricat reflects, describing not only a conversation she had with Constance but the kind of communion that exists between them, ";listening to what she had almost said." What Miss Jackson's characters really do and say, however, offers enough diversion even without reading between or behind their lines: Merricat...