Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rockefeller wiped it out with the help of an unpopular-but fiscally wise-tax hike of $277 million. Every year he has balanced his budget, and has steadily reduced the state's debt service charges from $53 million to $40 million a year...
...dissenters goes almost unheard. But, setting aside the reactionaries to whom change is anathema, the skeptics have something significant to say. For Radcliffe the lonely college possessed some attributes that Radcliffe the community of educational suffragettes may prove to lack. Perhaps the negative aspects of the many wise and already fruitful experiments that Mrs. Bunting has initiated are only the inevitable concomitants of progress toward a broader and deeper concept of women's education. And yet, one wonders...
...Taste of Honey. Playwright Shelagh Delaney's story of a wise child in Lancashire slums, who knows her own mother and is fearlessly determined to know herself. Rita Tushingham makes the heroine a kind of Oliver Twist in a maternity dress...
...think the culmination came," Salinger went on, "with the disclosure that the Herald Tribune completely ignored the stockpiling investigation." He was referring to a leftover Eisenhower Administration scandal, in which a copper company got a $6,000,000 windfall. Salinger was wrong, argued Trib Reporter David Wise. The Trib had indeed missed early editions with the story, but finally carried it-in the second section on page 32. Humphed Salinger: "If we're interested in history we'll start buying history books...
Petulant Purge. By then, the whole affair was beginning to look more than a little silly. It got even sillier. With straight-faced pride, the Tribune announced that 43 persons had offered to pay for gift subscriptions to the White House. Reporter Wise, presumably under orders, handed Salinger a contraband copy of the Tribune. But Salinger set it aside unopened, to defend the boss's right not to read any paper he likes. "The First Amendment to the Constitution grants the right of the press to print what it wants," said Salinger solemnly, "and the right of readers...